Renee Daoust and her husband Real Lestage are an award-winning team of architects in Montreal. Some years ago they found themselves on a lonely back road in the Laurentian Mountains surrounded by cedar pines that marched down a slope to the gentle stillness of Bark Lake. They decided to design a house that looks like a treehouse - a vertical piece of architecture that accentuates the cedar pines and which resembles a light box at night