Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
Église Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
When architect Étienne Bernier acquired this abandoned 1961 church in rural Quebec, he wasn’t just saving a building — he was rescuing one of
Jean-Marie Roy’s most inventive works. Built for $90,000 in reinforced concrete and crowned with a thin hyperbolic paraboloid shell, the structure has the formal daring of its era and the fragility to match. Bernier’s firm, Agence Spatiale, proposes its transformation into a hybrid cultural and hospitality space of artist residences, creative retreats, a café and short-term accommodations — including compact rooms inserted along the perimeter that echo the former confessionals — while the soaring central volume remains open and adaptable. New additions preserve the spatial integrity of Roy’s building and return it to the village that once gathered beneath its roof.
