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Architects: Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
- Area: 2500 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:James Brittain
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Manufacturers: Sky-Frame, Board, Buckley Rumford
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Lead Architects: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Talbot Sweetapple, Peter Broughton, Bruce Allen, Dalton Kaun, Etienne Lemay, Izak Bridgman, Rimon Soliman, Jonny Leger, Matthew Bishop
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Text description provided by the architects. This pool house and spa is constructed into the side of a mountain at the point where it meets the St. Lawrence River valley floor. Built for a discerning client on his rural property west of Montreal, this seemingly simple structure is intricately crafted. This is a minimalist project, inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 Barcelona Pavilion, which established the grammar for this elemental modern architecture.
![Quebec Pool House / Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects - Deck, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5c6a/2afd/284d/d151/2900/015b/medium_jpg/MLS_PoolHouse_22.jpg?1550461666)
A glass box containing a gym, lounge and service areas is embraced by elongated board-formed concrete walls that reach out into the landscape. These walls wrap around an outdoor infinity pool and spa that lunges towards the agrarian floodplain in the distance.
![Quebec Pool House / Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects - Garden, Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5c6a/27f9/284d/d1af/7400/0297/newsletter/FEATURE.MLS_PoolHouse_001.jpg?1550460898)
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![Quebec Pool House / Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects - Waterfront, Garden, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5c6a/2887/284d/d151/2900/0158/newsletter/MLS_PoolHouse_007.jpg?1550461040)
A monolithic roof floats above the glass box, with a cedar board soffit that extends above an outdoor fireplace, the pool and spa, offering protection from the elements.
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This is an all-weather building, designed for use in all four seasons. The glass walls surrounding the gym space open completely, reinforcing the indoor/outdoor nature of this space. Services are relegated to the back, north side of the pavilion, and buried below ground.
![Quebec Pool House / Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects - Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5c6a/2a08/284d/d151/2900/015a/newsletter/MLS_PoolHouse_017.jpg?1550461422)
The public façade of this project opens to the south west to take full advantage of daylighting, essential to this pool house’s program.
![Quebec Pool House / Mackay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects - Waterfront](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5c6a/2a9b/284d/d1af/7400/029b/newsletter/MLS_PoolHouse_019.jpg?1550461569)