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Townships Farmhouse by LAMAS received the Jury Winner distinction in the Private House XL category at the 2017 Architizer A+Awards. The project is located in North Hatley, Quebec, and was selected as part of Architizer’s global awards program recognizing residential architecture across scales and geographies.
The Architizer A+Awards are a large international program that combines jury and public voting, with thousands of submissions from around the world each year. In the Private House XL category, projects are evaluated based on their architectural concept, spatial innovation, and relationship to site and landscape, particularly for houses over 5,000 sq ft. Townships Farmhouse was recognized for its courtyard-based composition and its reinterpretation of agricultural building typologies in a rural Canadian context.
The project organizes a series of barn-inspired volumes around a central courtyard, drawing from the spatial logic of Eastern Townships farm structures. Rather than treating the house as a singular object, the design uses the idea of the “aisle” and agricultural circulation to structure movement, views, and daily life in direct relation to the surrounding fields and landscape.