mev cabin: an eccentric hideaway in the woods
Studio Jean Verville designs this eclectic MEV Cabin for two “admirable eccentrics” in Montreal. The design is largely driven by the clients’ passion for 1980s Italian art and design, as well as their desire for a hideaway nestled in the forest. ‘The objective is to animate their daily life with a whimsical energy,” write the architects, noting the spirit of the Residential project. Fortunately, this challenge aligned with the “disruptive approach” to the studio’s architecture.
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studio jean verville is inspired by the memphis style
The MEV Cabin of Studio Jean Verville takes shape as “a personalized alternative universe”. The house was developed in close collaboration with the clients and with “architectural mathematical rigor”. The team turns to the rebel works of the Italian Memphis Group, borrowing the geometries and colors associated with his design movement. The architects describe their understanding of the style as “the antithesis of monotony and monochrome architecture and design of its time”.
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sparkling interiors surrounded by dark volume
An eccentric refuge in the woods of Studio Jean Verville, the MEV Cabin takes shape with curved geometries and kaleidoscopic interiors. The group notes its goal of evoking a “wacky ’80s universe”, celebrating boldly contrasting relationships.
This type of dialogue is most apparent in the contrasting languages of the exterior and the interior. The architecture presents itself as a low and dark volume nestled among the trees, hollowed out to create an oblique and curved geometry. Inside, the interiors are defined by extravagant and graphic materials, whose reflective surfaces create a kaleidoscopic environment.
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The Studio Jean Verville team comments on the atmosphere of the place: ‘ Volumes and surfaces play games of formal opposition, adorning themselves with a panache of elements, patterns and colors vying for the traces of childhood.
‘The quintessence of a getaway in the heart of nature, the Laurentian forest welcomes the house-workshop on a plot of its territory that has remained out of reach, offering a place to live and work, both vibrant and free..’
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