Dezeen Features LAMAS’ Townships Farmhouse in Quebec’s Eastern Townships
Townships Farmhouse by LAMAS was featured on Dezeen on July 29, 2017, in an article by Alyn Griffiths titled “LAMAS builds contemporary Canadian farmhouse with reclaimed timber walls.” The project, located in North Hatley, Quebec, was presented as a contemporary reinterpretation of regional agricultural architecture shaped by the landscape and vernacular building traditions of the Eastern Townships.
The feature focuses on how the house draws from the spatial organization of historic Quebec and New England farm compounds, particularly courtyard barns arranged to provide shelter from wind and facilitate movement across working agricultural sites. Dezeen highlights the project’s use of reclaimed timber cladding salvaged from local barns, steeply pitched roof forms, and a protected inner courtyard that structures the relationship between interior spaces and the surrounding landscape.
The project is organized around a series of interconnected gabled volumes that reinterpret the “aisle” of traditional barns as a device for framing views and linking domestic life to the surrounding fields. Rather than treating the farmhouse as a singular object, the design develops a clustered composition where circulation, sightlines, and environmental protection are integrated into a courtyard-based arrangement rooted in the region’s agricultural building culture.