The black-lacquered aluminum panels and double-height volumes of this home in southern Quebec, designed by Les Architectes FABG, abstract its scale from the outside.
When a Canadian financier's career took him to Asia, far from his parents in Montreal, the two generations laid plans for a vacation house that would bring them together on holidays. For total immersion in each other's company, the retreat, a blackened stack of boxes designed by Les Architectes FABG, is quieted away in the woods around the Vermont border.