These deliberately simple volumes allow for the development of residential typologies focused on the quality of living. All units are dual-aspect, generously daylit, and easily adaptable over time. The modular grid enables multiple configurations responding to diverse uses, such as families, seniors, shared housing, or live-work units, without compromising the architectural logic. A linear service core frees the living spaces and enhances the warm presence of wood. Larger units unfold as descending duplexes, while artists’ studios benefit from mezzanines and double-height spaces conducive to creative work.

Beneath the roof, a sequence of intermediate spaces, including appropriable walkways, circulation areas, and gathering zones, forms a true community block. Constantly flooded with natural light, these in-between spaces foster everyday interactions and reinforce the project’s collective dimension. A shared rooftop terrace extends these communal spaces at the upper level.

The project also opens itself to the city. A piazza is carved out at the Masson/Saint-Michel corner, offering a new public space for the neighborhood capable of hosting markets, events, and everyday street life. A café and an open workshop address this plaza, creating a soft transition between the public realm and the central private garden at the heart of the site. At ground level along Masson Street, a series of transparent retail spaces activates the street, bringing lightness and visual continuity between the public space and the interior of the block.

The project integrates Montréal’s climatic realities, including natural ventilation in summer through dual-aspect units and open walkways, passive heat gain in winter generated by the greenhouse effect beneath the glazed roof, and the architectural integration of snow and water management. The construction system allows for long-term adaptability and complies with universal accessibility principles.

Overall, the project proposes an architecture rooted in its context and oriented toward collective life, where the roof acts as a federating element, where interstitial spaces generate social connections, and where the quality of living is expressed through a luminous, flexible, and distinctly Montréal character.