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From the architect. The original house was built in the 1960s, in a style
vaguely reminiscent of the cottage familiar to this part of Brussels. It is
situated in an a!luent and green residential neighbourhood in the
outskirts of the city.
The former house was essentially a 2-story white brick building. It
took advantage of the slope of the terrain to include a two-car garage
in the basement. There was an exterior staircase leading to the main
entrance on the first floor.
Strict building codes required that the geometry of the old building
could not be changed, including its sloped roofs, its height and the
materials it was originally built in. However, there were few
regulations about “carving out” the ground or choosing the colour
palette.
The intervention thus consists of renovating and extending the
existing house:
I. Creating a “plinth” for the home: the ground floor of the house was
extended enhancing the geometry of the building and giving the
impression that it now sits on a plinth. This extension also o!ers a new
exterior staircase linking the two levels of the garden and creating a
passageway along the south façade. Finally, three niches are carved
within the mass of the plinth: the garage, the o!ice entrance, and the
new main entrance.
II. Revisiting the interior: The new entrance to the home was brought
down to the ground level, o!ering a direct and generous access for its
occupants. It also completely liberated the first floor. Once inside, a
new sculptural staircase carves its way up along the walls.
Furthermore, the new living room is now 2 stories high.
III. Framing Nature: To give the impression of a monolithic structure, a
dark coloured palette was used for the façade, the roof and the
window frames. The interior walls of the home, seen as a “camera
obscura”, are mainly painted white o!ering a perfect contrast to the
outside world: the windows become framed moments of the
surrounding natural landscape.
Product Description. To give an expansive view of the surroundings,
very thin window frames are used. Furthermore, instead of using the
traditional technique of placing the frames within the opening, they
are placed on the exterior side. In certain cases, it thus seems that the
frames disappear altogether.
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K2A:
Brussels, Belgium:
Federico Alegria, Stéphane Kervyn, LaurentKeutgen
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Denis Vangansbergt, Flavia Radu:
Permis de Construire:
560.0 m2:
2016:
Nicolas Schimp:
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