COMBATTANTS

avril, 2022

COMBATTANTS

Transformation of family house

Description: Transformation and renovation of a family house
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Berchem Sint Agathe, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 200 m²
Year: 2016-2017

This is a single-family, built on a rectangular parcel of land on a street with heterogeneous architecture.

The project consists in recreating a single-family house, transforming and extending the living spaces, bringing in more light, and taking advantage of views on the garden side. A particularity of the site and of the house is that the cellars have high ceilings and open directly onto the garden. Part of the cellars were therefore used for the kitchen and dining room.

For the whole of the living room, the desire is to enlarge the living space.

A black corrugated sheet metal cladding responds to the cladding of a warehouse located at the bottom of the plot.

The front facade has not been modified in order to preserve the identity of the place.

BESME

avril, 2022

BESME

Family house in Forest

Description: Renovation of a single house
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation
Location: Forest, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 400 m²
Year: 2019-2020
Contractor: Nad sprl
Stability engineers : Verhelst Engineers
Pictures: Laurent Brandajs

The project enhances the heritage of this Maison bourgeoise of eclectype style while radically changing the way of living there.

This magnificent house located in Forest, at the intersection of the Albert Tower and Parc Forest was renovated with very little intervention on the existing structure.

The rooms on the street are perfectly restored to their original state, by preserving their volume and reclaiming their heritage.

The central rooms of the first floor, which are without direct sunlight, are dematerialized and transformed into a splendid staircase in half levels. By placing placing the staircase in the center of the house,we create a source of light and visual connections throuw the outdoor.

On the garden side, the façade is open and the brickwork restored.

The project makes intensive use of reused materials, recovered from the demolition of the site or from ROTOR (floors,lighting, hardware, …).

PONT

avril, 2021

PONT

A semi-detached house extended by a neighboring house to form a single project.

Description: Single Family House
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Location: Rebecq
Surface: 200 m²
Year: 2018-2019

Located in Rebecq, the Rue du Pont is lined with modest red brick houses creating a homogeneous whole here and there visually interrupted by shop windows or more elaborate facades. Part of a group of 3 buildings arranged in a mirror image, the semi-detached houses have a sober front façade. As one of the houses was cramped, the owners made the judicious choice of acquiring the neighboring house and unifying them. By grouping the first floors, the living space takes on generous proportions and allows the annexes to be attached to the body of the main building, which allows more freedom on the rear façade to open generous bays towards the garden. The demolition of the party wall between the gardens of the two houses gives way to a terrace in dialogue with the kitchen. In an effort to be resilient, the structural interventions are left exposed and show the former division of the rooms. These lines punctuate the perspectives, and participate in the development of the free plan. The deliberately contemporary composition proposes a clerestory installation of the brick cladding, a mesh in which is inserted the entrance door of the apartment and allows the intimacy of the living room. The intervention allows to give a new life to the modest terraced houses by relying on and integrating its own characteristics but especially to create two large dwellings adapted to the current needs of the inhabitants without changing the volumes.

VALDUC II

juillet, 2019

VALDUC II

New construction of an apartment building and two single family houses

Description: Apartment building, an office and two family houses
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and construction
Location: Auderghem, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 760 m²
Year: 2018-2021

The Valduc project, in Auderghem, takes place on the street front and inside a quiet, permeable and green island. It plans the new construction of an apartment building to close the hollow tooth and two single-family houses inside the block. The project study focuses on the desire to increase soil permeability by replacing 13 garage boxes with a mixed and low-density program.

SAVOIE II

juillet, 2019

SAVOIE

Four apartments

Description: Transformation of a single house into 4 apartments
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Saint-Gilles, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 380 m²
Year: 2020
Stability engineers: Verhelst engineers
Contractor: VICTRO sprl

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

The Savoie project is located in the heart of the town of Saint-Gilles, halfway between the town square and Forest Park. It reinterprets the garden facade of a house dating from 1911 with four apartments to meet current housing expectations.