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| HOUSE RF |
photos Muller Fien |
AN EVER CHANGING CANVAS:
some years ago this architect-couple bought an old warehouse along the river.
The past four years they slowly moulded the place into their home.
Little by little they added colour, texture, emotion an details to the blank canvas.
And still today it is not considered finished. They continuously add, change and rummage through their house.
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| C MINE |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
This old mine complex was successfully transformed into theatre and concert hall, tourist centre, and design museum. It’s a distinct and precise answer on how to deal with large-scale industrial heritage. The operations performed on the existing buildings are voluntarily restricted and extremely direct. By extending the buildings the architects created a whole new labyrinth like foyer including exhibition spaces, offices, a café, a restaurant, meeting rooms and accesses to the two new theatres. The theatres are conceived as day lit machine rooms, inside which old brick infrastructure becomes the backdrop for a new stage. Most interesting renovations.
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| WIT |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
Sombre, forgotten house becomes practical architecture’s office. The actual office is located on the two top floors in mezzanine.
The first floor is both meeting room cum team room and library for the entire office. Quite becoming for the building after reconstruction, is the subtle balance between mass and space, between dark and light, between Mediterranean-appearing massive construction and Scandinavian, wooden lightness. The generous rooms in a defined, directed claire-obscure game, the temperate yet royal contact between street and surrounding nature, the inartificial yet rich collage of materials which articulates the room by creating complex resonances: all this lingers on in the silenced, abstract geometrical facade. The office completely revives this forgotten and neglected place on the city’s edge.
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| HOUSE DS |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
From an anonymous building lot in an average suburb to a remarkable beacon in aesthetic architecture, that is the process of this compact newly built residence. The closed off black outside without view of the inside, turns out to be very open, spacious and light. It has become a successful exchange between architect, principal and interior designers. In spite of the complex structure of the house, there is a clear and open construction on the inside. The residence presents a strong image in the street with a reluctant sculptural volume on the outside, which is light, free and generous inside, open in three dimensions.
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| HOUSE MG |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
The request of the principal was to build a rural manor, inspired by the American model. In order to realise this, significant points of departure played a role, amongst other the location and the use of the lot. Because of the location, the residence forms the visual end point of the street, and it overviews rural scenery from two sides. The house is visible from a great distance, both from the street and the surrounding fields, and it is always approached very gradually. In the interior, both the internal experience of the residence and the relations with the surrounding were emphasised. The covered terraces are higher than the surrounding grassy fields and deeper into the facade, hence offering perspective to the views and giving a withdrawn and sheltered feeling in the openness of the surrounding.
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| WACO |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
The interior of a typical Flemish dwelling is renewed by Low architecten. The new comfortable living space, which opens onto the private back garden, is visually connected to an open kitchen thanks to a big window with wooden frames. The kitchen is a dynamic composition of low kitchen cabinets and a kitchen island, both simple shapes with surprising accents of color, with a black marble wall on the background. The office space, with the same new flooring as the rest of the ground floor, is integrated in the family house, but functions perfectly on its own as a one man law office. Ceiling high cupboards made from wooden and sanded brass panels are combined with a desk designed by Low: a Perspex desktop on top of a brass leg structure.
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| HOUSE JOSA |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
The existing house fits in a typical Flemish settlement: a freestanding private house surrounded by a large garden. Low architecten designed the extension, a room with a view to the garden. The new volume includes a new open kitchen with living- and play room for the young family. To emphasize the relation with the surrounding nature, big windows alternate with big steel panels, which create a sculptural yet geometric image.
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| HOUSE AMAV |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
The architecten transformed the interior of a typical 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of Antwerp. The result is a small upper-level loft in urban style. Big sliding doors define enclosed areas -such as bedroom and bathroom- in an open living space. Industrial details are set in contrast with the custom made kitchen and high design furniture. The remaining existing concrete columns set off this urban feeling even more.
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| BLACK AND WHITE |
photos Vercruysse Frederik |
The spaciousness, the natural light and the programme turn this residence into an interesting project. In spite of its remarkable structure, the house connects modestly with the surrounding. The closed character however of the outside of the residence forms a nice contrast with the open plan inside. Through the various rooms and the fully-glazed back facade, a maximum of light enters the house and hence each room has views on the garden and the exterior surrounding.
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| HOUSE FP |
photos Dujardin Filip |
This contemporary canopy, better known as a 'shelter house' coincides perfectly with the folkloristic farm buildings spread throughout the landscape. The architects built the house like a bubble. Energy losses are reduced, greenhouse effect enforced. Roof water and drainage runs into an existing pond on the site and contributes to flora and fauna.
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| HOUSE CLAERHOUT |
photos Van Leuven Bart |
The house of architect Claerhout dating from the '60s, was renovated to be a house where living could be combined with an architectural design firm. A long wide corridor is the transition buffer between home and work, making a door between the two parts unnecessary. Have a look at this successful metamorphosis where work and lifestyle go hand in hand.
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| NEW MANSION |
photos Van de Velde Tim |
Walking through this impressive house is like making a time travel from the Middle Ages to the present time.The history of this new mansion dates back to the 16th century when the building was erected as a brewer’s house. Over the years, the house has known quite some alterations and renovations, resulting in a different ambience in each room. Thanks to its rich history and the various building campaigns over the years, the house became very diverse and valuable. Also the garden was completely restyled in collaboration with a scenic architect.
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| HOUSE JA |
photos Bollaert Stijn |
This doublehouse is actually an expansion of a semi house. The architects doubled the living space by connecting two houses, but the extension on the outside was coated with only one material to prevent further heterogeneity. The spacious new area of the house is bathed in light because of the outlouk on the countryside. The old combined with the new, the peaceful view and the light that wanders through the living spaces, give the house an attractive and exceptional value in the Flemish countryside.
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| GARDENHOUSE |
photos Muller Fien |
This renovated garden house is like an oasis of calm.
In the courtyard, beside the sunny terrace there is a peaceful ecological swimming pond.
Independent of the fireplace, the whole house (including the swimming pond) is heated by solar power.
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| ARTECONOMY |
photos Lindman Åke E:son |
If there would be a place where the open/close, private/public, owner/guest, definite/indefinite, fine/rough-cease to be such, what would it look like?
A 'fermette' (a country home build à l'ancienne) underwent a drastic renovation. A 12 mm steel wall is installed around the house. It stands 3 meters away from the building and is 3 meters high, with only few, specific openings that interrupt it: a narrow entrance-slit, three openings that frame close and far views and so a buffer zone is created around the house, filtering the surrounding landscape.
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| HOUSE VAN DEN BOOGAARD |
photos Lindman Åke E:son |
Inspired by international avant-garde masters such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright, Van den Bogaerde built this masterpiece in 1966. The harmony between architecture, garden and surrounding forms the essence. An affiliation with Japanese architecture is expressed in the importance of integrating within that surrounding, the wooden construction, the open plan design, the sliding doors and the eaves. The designed a residence with an open plan, a simple, rectangular floor plan with symmetrical division and a large flexibility in the use of the rooms by using moveable or sliding panels.
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| HOUSE HUBERTY |
photos Lindman Åke E:son |
When building his own house in 1962, Jean-Mary Huberty wanted to exploit the characteristics of the material to the utmost limit and asked Paduart to collaborate on this project. They came to an agreement in which Huberty was responsible for the overall design and Paduart was responsible for the calculation of the thin concrete shell roof.
The design is characterized by a very simple geometry and ground plan: a simple rectangle defines the overall lay-out of the plan, covered by a three-dimensional plane. Both the enclosing walls and the roof are made up of reinforced concrete; yet it is the roof that merits particular attention.
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| SCULPTURAL HOUSE |
photos Lindman Åke E:son |
The sculpture house was designed as a synthesis of structure and form. This 'living-sculpture' was undertaken by the team as a reaction against the general pressure of the sixties towards standardization of forms in architecture, in which an artistic poverty and deficiency needed to be counterbalanced through collaboration with sculptors and painters. The merit of the artistic collaboration is evident when looking at the scheme of the building yard. The unity of form and material combined with sculptures are the focus of this architectural gem.
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| LEKKERMAKERY |
photos Jordi Bover |
Her passion is cooking. But instead of tying herself down to a fixed place, she chose a mobile and flexible solution: a market van was turned into mobile kitchen, restaurant and bar/music bar. Guests are received in the open air here. It is always a surprise where and when this Lekkermakery will turn up. It is all about fair food and a good atmosphere
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