ACACIA

août, 2017

ACACIA

Renovation of a villa

Description: Extension and renovation of a villa
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and construction
Location: Hoeilaart, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 209 m²
Year: 2012-2014
Contractor: NAD sprl

Pictures: Maxime Delvaux

The building is located in the Groenendael district near the Station on the edge of the Sonian Forest in a beautiful natural setting. The detached house overhanging the street is overlooking a wooded green area that cannot be built. It is bordered in the back by a large garden surrounded by hundred-yearold trees. The peculiarity of this building lies in its roof with two very steep slopes (60°) which dominate the facades. Given its exceptional natural context, the idea was to link the building with its surroundings. The house was completely covered with anthrazinc (dark grey zinc) to create a high performance thermal envelope and to unify the facade and the roof. Two extensions, like frames, were built in order to connect with the surrounding landscape. These extensions to the outside have increased significantly the space on the 1 st floor and converted the space under the roof in a beautiful viewpoint.

VANDERAY

août, 2017

VANDERAY

The project consists in creating a contemporary intervention allowing a dialogue between the two old classical and working-class facades through a skilful play of volumes without changing the surface of the house.

Description: Single Family House
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Location: Uccle
Surface: 150 m²
Year: 2017

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

The house is located in the interior of a block, at the end of a cobblestone easement. The avenue is heterogeneous and mixes single-family houses and tenement buildings, classical style and « working class » style.
The house is located at the intersection of these two typologies, and appears to be the union of two small houses or parts of houses.
The extension to the garden level makes it possible to place a dining room and thus enlarge the day space and to create a roof extension in the form of a dormer window in the extension of the new façade.
The new facade thus created contrasts with its large openings and external insulation, but is integrated into the ensemble by its white-painted brick facing and its wooden frames. The existing facades are restored, the windows replaced by more efficient windows with traditional profiles. All appendages were removed. The renovated dwelling provides three bedrooms and a wide-open living room on the garden level.
The extension makes it possible to create a larger bedroom, with a magnificent view of the surrounding vegetation in this part of the block.
The discreet and harmonious intervention enhances the value of the whole building.

POMMIERS

août, 2017

POMMIERS

Renovation of a house

Description: Renovation and extension of a house
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation and extension
Location: Auderghem, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 198 m²
Year: 2012-2014

The house is situated in a remarkable picturesque development of the 50s enchantingly named after the Apple trees area “Le clos des Pommiers fleuris”, which reunites around fifty houses on the borders of the Woluwe river near the Tenreuken ponds. These houses are not taking advantage of this idyllic surrounding: little or no openings in the rear facades, small rooms and low ceilings. It was difficult to keep any elements of this house to satisfy the contractor’s wishes: Transform the house in low-energy or Passive House, increase the number of rooms and expand the space. The project was therefore to build an extension on two levels transforming the entire rear façade, creating a new staircase, cleaning the front façade, removing and replacing the walls by mixed steel and concrete columns, designing integrated furniture and finally through paying attention to each detail, offering a coherent and holistic project.

SOIGNES

août, 2017

SOIGNES

Renovation of a single house

Description: Renovation of a single house
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation
Location: Forêt de Soignes, Belgium
Surface area: 200 m²
Year: 2018

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

The project was to modify a house to meet the needs of a young family. The couple wished to adapt their house to the needs of their time.

Two extensions to the existing house, one on the ground floor and one in the roof on the second floor are located in the rear elevation.

A red brick shed was built to the rear of the existing building. It gives character to the whole.

On the ground floor, an open space is provided, linking the dining room, kitchen and living room. As a result, the existing main building and outbuilding will be connected to each other. The existing building is demolished and a high quality open space is created.

The front room is used for entertaining guests. The owner, a psychologist, occasionally wanted to receive a patient at home. The staircase in the middle of the main building, ideal for dividing the plan into two parts, will serve as a passage between the reception room, the living room and the toilets. Similarly, on the first floor, the staircase between the two children’s rooms and the central part will house the bathroom.

MONTENEGRO

août, 2017

MONTENEGRO

Two apartments

Description: Transformation of a single house into an apartment building
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Saint-Gilles, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 341 m²
Year: 2012-2013

Pictures: Maxime Delvaux & Delphine Mathy

Located in one of the most densely populated and more cosmopolitan districts of the country in what is commonly called the bottom of Saint-Gilles, the house presented the model of a typical Brussels house with an eclectic polychromatic façade. The project consisted in having two units of apartments distributed on 5 floors. The main developments are the composition and simplicity of lines to obtain an optimal spatial quality. In order to design larger apartments, extensions were made on the ground floor / garden and under the roof space. The rear façade was widely open to provide for more natural light and view of the inner courtyard. Communal areas have been reduced to their simplest expression in order to give more space to living areas. The different functionalities, displayed through elements of furniture, are filling up the released space. By using simple material, the project tries to show the paramount importance of implementation both through the finishing touches and the integrated furniture.