项目名称：La Flèche Residence

地点：蒙特朗布朗, 加拿大

设计团队：MU Architecture

建筑面积：7977 ft² 

竣工时间：2023年

摄影：Raphaël Thibodeau

设计特色：拉弗莱什住宅堪称情境设计的杰作，将一座家庭住宅无缝融入魁北克省最具挑战性的地形环境中。该项目的标志性特征——一系列重叠并向天空延伸的望远镜式屋顶——营造出动感的建筑姿态，既似箭矢又如鱼叉，为住宅赋予了富有诗意的名称。

建筑建于极为陡峭的场地上，需要爆破坚硬岩石，这座两层结构体现了MU建筑事务所低调优雅的设计理念。事务所巧妙地将整个花园层隐藏起来，营造出更为谦逊的建筑形象，同时最大化利用700平方米的室内空间。这种设计手法体现了事务所对克制胜过炫耀的承诺，倾向于既尊重客户偏好又体现环境敏感性的建筑精致性。

住宅外观展现出精致的材料组合——温暖的木条和干砌石材与周围的劳伦提亚森林和谐呼应。刀锋般纤薄的屋檐和无缝集成的通风细节赋予建筑精确切割的外观，而钢制屋顶线条下的触感木质屋檐则提供了温暖的对比。

室内复杂的三角形吊顶调节着内部空间体量，创造出私密空间，并逐渐向厨房上方的戏剧性天窗延伸。设计促进了无缝的室内外生活，配备户外用餐露台和包含桑拿浴室及健身设施的下层健康区域。

最值得注意的是，拉弗莱什住宅严格遵循环保法规，包括禁止可见外部照明，使住宅能够与当地野生动物和谐共存。该项目代表了戏剧性建筑与环境管理的罕见融合，打造了一个既颂扬人类舒适性又赞美自然之美的家庭圣地。

设计团队 - MU Architecture作为一家杰出的加拿大建筑事务所，由Charles Côté和Jean-Sébastien Herr于2010年创立，现位于蒙特利尔，在设计总监Charles Côté和Jean-Sébastien Herr的创意指导下，该事务所发展出涵盖优雅当代住宅、以人为本的创意办公空间和大型前卫项目的创新解决方案声誉。

Charles Côté和Jean-Sébastien Herr为事务所带来了卓越的建筑经验和对当代建筑实践的深刻理解。在创始合伙人的领导下，以及包括Magda Telenga等人在内的才华横溢的团队支持下，该事务所因其对细节的细致关注和对工艺的承诺而获得认可。这种全球专业知识与当代设计创新的结合，使MU Architecture在加拿大建筑景观中占据独特地位。

该事务所的设计哲学强调场地特定解决方案与建筑执行同等重要，不急于寻求标准化建筑解决方案，而是相信建筑应该是对环境条件、文化背景和项目要求透彻理解的结果。通过与客户的对话，他们制定项目的主要要素，然后提供专业知识将想法转化为现实。MU Architecture相信卓越的想法来自与专业顾问和工匠的协作，他们热爱挑战自己并进一步推动设计边界，创新是保持业务运行的关键。

通过对本土材料使用、传统空间逻辑理解和当代建筑语言的深思熟虑的综合，MU Architecture已确立自己作为加拿大当代建筑话语重要贡献者的地位，创造出既扎根于地方又拥抱全球设计视野的建筑作品。他们的作品屡获殊荣，包括多项国际建筑奖项，体现了其将大胆概念构想转化为有形建筑成就的能力。

Project Name: La Flèche Residence

Location: Mont-Tremblant, Canada

Design Team: MU Architecture

Total Floor Area: 7977 ft² (741 m²)

Completion: 2023

Photography: Raphaël Thibodeau

Feature: Canadian architecture studio MU Architecture completed the La Flèche Residence project in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, creating a dramatic mountain retreat that ingeniously transforms challenging steep terrain into an extraordinary living experience. The project is positioned within the naturally rich landscape of the Laurentian forest, drawing inspiration from Canada's harsh climate conditions to create an architectural work that both celebrates regional building traditions and embodies contemporary design innovation.

The project's most compelling design feature lies in its sophisticated response to a dramatically steep mountainside site---the architects masterfully handled the topographical constraints by creating a series of telescoping roofs that overlap and thrust skyward, generating dynamic architectural gestures that evoke both arrow and harpoon forms. Rather than choosing traditional horizontal expansion, the architecture embraces vertical potential, creating a building that layers across two levels with the upper level concealing an entire garden level from view, generating unique spatial experiences while maintaining seamless connection through sophisticated interior volume modulation.

The building's form strategically opens toward the surrounding forest and Lake Tremblant, optimizing exposure to natural daylight and maximizing panoramic views of the mountain landscape. This thoughtful orientation ensures that the house maintains an intimate connection to the wilderness while adhering to strict environmental regulations including a ban on visible exterior lighting to protect local wildlife. The building facade showcases warm wood slats and dry-stacked stone, providing superior weather protection from a functional perspective while possessing refined aesthetic significance that harmonizes with the surrounding forest.

Material selection demonstrates exceptional sensitivity to place and climate. The razor-thin eaves, seamlessly integrated ventilation details, and locally sourced materials create a tactile dialogue that maps the resilient qualities of the surrounding natural environment. The complex triangulated ceiling system provides necessary structural support while allowing for maximized interior spatial experience, modulating interior volumes from intimate living spaces to dramatic skylight culmination above the kitchen area.

The project culminates in the sophisticated spatial organization, which simultaneously serves multiple functions across two levels totaling over 700 square meters. The main level features generous living areas with monumental stone fireplace, expansive kitchen with hidden pantry, and master suite with private balcony, while the lower level provides three additional bedrooms including children's room with bunk beds, spacious family room, game room with bar and pool table, and wellness zone with sauna and fully equipped gym. This innovative design exemplifies how contemporary architecture can maximize spatial efficiency while providing luxury living service experiences, creating a feeling that is both grounded and aspirational.

Design Team - MU Architecture stands as a distinguished Canadian architectural practice that has established an exceptional reputation in innovative contemporary design. Founded by Charles Côté and Jean-Sébastien Herr in 2010 and based in Montreal, Quebec, under the creative direction of design principals Charles Côté and Jean-Sébastien Herr, the firm has developed a reputation for creating innovative solutions across elegant contemporary residences, human-oriented creative office spaces, and large-scale avant-garde projects.

Charles Côté and Jean-Sébastien Herr bring exceptional architectural experience and deep understanding of contemporary building practices to the firm. Under the leadership of founding partners, supported by a talented multidisciplinary team including Magda Telenga, Pierre-Loup Pivoin, Maude Hébert, Karine Taillon, Céleste Main, and Sakiko Watatani, the practice has garnered recognition for its meticulous attention to detail and commitment to craftsmanship. This combination of global expertise with contemporary design innovation positions MU Architecture uniquely within Canada's architectural landscape.

The firm's design philosophy emphasizes that site-specific solutions are as important as architectural execution, not rushing to standardized architectural solutions but believing that architecture should be a result of thorough understanding of environmental conditions, cultural contexts, and programmatic requirements. Through dialogue with clients, they formulate the main ingredients for the project then offer their expertise to transform ideas into reality. MU Architecture believes that exceptional ideas come from collaboration with specialized consultants and artisans, they love to challenge themselves and push the design boundary further, with innovation being the key to keeping their business running.

Through this thoughtful synthesis of local material usage, understanding of traditional spatial logic, and contemporary architectural language, MU Architecture has established itself as a significant contributor to Canada's contemporary architectural discourse, creating architectural works that are both rooted in place and embrace global design vision. Their work has been recognized with numerous international awards, demonstrating their ability to transform bold conceptual ideas into tangible architectural achievements that inspire and transform daily life.