As the house is a veterans' house, a typical dwelling in Montreal's working-class neighbourhoods in the 1950s, it was important to respect its architectural heritage. The challenge was to highlight the characteristic volumetry of this type of building while giving it a second life that better met the space needs of the new owners.

Parents of twins, an architect and her husband, called upon APPAREIL Architecture to design the expansion and redevelopment of a veterans’ home in Verdun.