How They Pulled It Off: Custom-Built Record Storage
Local firm Natalie Dionne Architecture created an elegant solution for a recording engineer's extensive vinyl collection.
Local firm Natalie Dionne Architecture created an elegant solution for a recording engineer's extensive vinyl collection.
Welcome to How They Pulled It Off where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality.
When designing a new home for a Montreal recording engineer and his graphic designer wife, architect Natalie Dionne knew the design needed to make space for music. "She really likes graphic objects and minimalism, but it was important to add space for the sound system and the husband’s album collection," says Dionne, principal of the Montreal-based firm Natalie Dionne Architecture.
This Montreal home designed by Natalie Dionne Architecture integrates with its neighborhood by incorporating a brick facade and playing with horizontal and vertical dimensions.
Photo by Raphaël Thibodeau
Located in the verdant Ahuntsic-Cartierville neighborhood of Montreal, the house needed to play well with the surrounding homes, many of which are in the style of mid-century California bungalows. Taking inspiration from the clean lines, brick facades, and pronounced horizontality of its neighbors, the home borrows a 1960s architectural language but injects contemporary geometries.
Photo by Raphaël Thibodeau
"I wanted to respect the other buildings and integrate this project on its street," says Dionne. The home’s brick cladding brings a familiar texture to the exterior, which is broken up by a mixture of horizontal and vertical window openings on all four sides that lend a contemporary feel.
The compressed entry space opens quickly to a double-height living room. Polished concrete floors and white walls provide a minimalist backdrop for life to unfold.
Photo: Raphaël Thibodeau
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