Bernier-Thibault house23. Aug2012
Bernier-Thibault house is located on a densely built block in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood from Montreal, Canada. There was an existing house which received a transformation and an extension in order to be functional for a family of four. The extention host two rooms: one for the kids and one for the adults. The main goal of the architects was to create a house filled with natural light, appeasing, and thought.
Bernier-Thibault house received Marcel Parizeau Award of the Order of Architects of Quebec in 2009.
Photos from Marc Cramer, Paul Bernier and Vittorio Viera.
via AwesomeArchitecture
"Two boxes of glass and wood, simple volumes and similar in size, were added to this house in the Plateau Mont-Royal. A box is placed on the roof and the other in the backyard under the big maple. Added the box in the garden becomes a games room connected to living rooms and open doors with large windows overlooking the courtyard as a pavilion in the garden..." - Paul Bernier Architects---
"... Thus, the ground floor, the space of family life, is hinged to the horizontal” L” around the garden becomes an extra room in summer. This addition is covered with a green roof that blends into its surroundings when seen on the floors above. The box on the roof shelters the room of parents, as a tree house reserved for large. Paneled space where we see the city and the sunrise. The box on the roof also acts as a skylight for the volume of the house below."---
"...The western corner, fully fenestrated, overlooking a vertical breakthrough that has been practiced in the original house and allows natural light to enter full-screen and on three floors to the ground floor through a gateway slatted wooden openwork."---
Notice how the light goes through the floor of the upper story toward the underneath spaces."Paul Bernier says: "I am interested in inventive architecture. Floor does not have to be opaque, it can let the light, a wall does not have to be fixed and the door can be opened a thousand ways. I also try to feel things to enrich the architectural experience that is fun to feel the inertia of a massive door, the comfort of a wooden rounded underfoot or for assembly by understand how a load is supported."
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"...The second, the bedroom floor, and air is calm. The rooms, by means of a partition made of large sliding panels of wood, open on the bridge floating above the living room, in a double-height space, flooded with light. In this space is the staircase of steel and wood, as in a casket." 
"...Few materials are used, mainly birch and oiled solid steel oxidized crude. Materials simple, accessible and local."---
Kid's room.---
Parent's room.---
Architect Paul Bernier.Photo from CasaTV
About Paul Bernier from his website:
Paul Bernier practice as an architect since 1991. He first worked in agencies in Montreal and elsewhere in Canada. He started his own studio in 1999.
Paul Bernier's work is characterized by the interplay of space, light and great care taken in the choice of materials and how to assemble them. He has developed this sensitivity to architectural details, not to multiply but to purify the essential and to control execution.
It attaches great importance to the relationship with the customer to understand who he is and needs, so that the project, although from a creative process similar to that which would occupy.
He also spends a lot of time on their sites. The close collaboration that has always had with the workers it is very useful to master the techniques of construction and to further the architectural exploration. He also acts itself as a promoter and builder.
Paul Bernier also carries furniture and, in parallel with his practice, applied research in architecture.
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