Dwell Features LAMAS’ Barn-Inspired Townships Farmhouse
LAMAS’ Townships Farmhouse in North Hatley, Quebec, was featured in Dwell Magazine in an article by Kimberlie Birks titled “An Artist and Farmer Work With a Toronto-Based Studio to Build a Barn-Inspired Home,” published in 2017. The project was presented as part of Dwell’s editorial coverage of contemporary residential architecture rooted in rural and landscape contexts.
The feature focuses on the collaboration between the clients and LAMAS in developing a home on a 200-acre working farm in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. It describes how the project draws from regional barn typologies and agricultural building logic, adapting these references into a contemporary residential framework shaped by landscape, views, and long-term inhabitation. The house is presented as both a response to local vernacular architecture and the specific conditions of the site.
The project organizes domestic life through a courtyard-based composition that references traditional barn arrangements, with volumes positioned to frame fields, control wind exposure, and create layered interior-exterior relationships. The result is a rural home structured by agricultural logics, where circulation and spatial orientation are directly informed by the rhythms of the surrounding landscape.