ARTAN

août, 2024

ARTAN

Renovation of a villa in Schaerbeek

Description: Renovation of a villa 3 façades
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation
Location: Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
Year: 2023

pictures: Delphine Mathy

The ARTAN project involves the renovation and conversion of a single-family home. The interventions are designed to improve the functionality and aesthetics of the dwelling while respecting the original architectural features.

One of the key aspects of the project is the extension, including the creation of an additional bedroom upstairs and a terrace offering direct access to the garden. This creates a direct connection between the inside and the outside environment. The entrance hall has been completely redesigned to create a bright, welcoming space.

The organisation of this new space allows fluid circulation around the garage, accentuating the feeling of openness as soon as you enter the house. The overall intervention is characterised by its sobriety and discretion, highlighting the existing architecture rather than supplanting it.

On the street side, however, a bolder approach was adopted: the existing brick wall was demolished to make way for the addition, making the scale of the project visible from the street.

FLORIDE

août, 2024

FLORIDE

Renovation of a family house

Description: Renovation of a single house
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation
Location: Uccle, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 380 m²
Year: 2022-2024

pictures: Delphine Mathy

The project involves a major renovation and transformation of an existing semi-detached family house in Uccle.

The original volume of the house has been mainly maintained while the entrance and the stairs were modified to maximize the entrance of light through the third façade at the back of the house.

The ground floor is now dedicated to the entrance, storage, offices and a garage; the first floor contains the living area, and the other levels are assigned to multiple bedrooms. The levels are connected by a new concrete staircase which offers nice views over the garden.

The ground floor has been enhanced and transformed. An office area has been added, and new, larger windows and openings brighten the interior. The front door has been modified to allow ground floor access. The existing living area has been transformed to create an open and illuminated living and dining room with a direct connection to the open kitchen, which is linked to a large terrace on the garden side of the house. A library has been installed in the former entrance hall, giving a view across to the garden and a degree of ‘inside/outside’ permeability thanks to the stairwell, which extends to the rear and has a large bay window over its entire height

The facade work is characterized by brickwork without visible joints.

ALSEMBERG

septembre, 2022

ALSEMBERG

Family house in Uccle

Description: Transformation and renovation of an warehouse into a residential housing.
Type of project: Housing – Familyhouse
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Uccle, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 280 m²
Year: 2020-2022
Pictures: Delphine Mathy
Contractor: MP instal
Stability engineers : Verhelst Engineers
Collaboration : BC architect, Rotor
PEB: Coralie Van Pottelsberghe

Located in Uccle in the interior of a city block, an aluminum coloring warehouse that had been abandoned for more than 10 years was converted into a passive house for the owners.

The ensemble formed by the carriage entrance and the abandoned warehouse covers the entire plot. It offers sufficient surfaces and sizes for the development of their personal project.

The concept is simple: to work on the void. By creating a patio at the entrance and a garden at the back, the project can develop the necessary and sufficient facade surfaces to bring natural light into all the living rooms, entirely glazed. By adding a floor in the existing template, we provide the additional floor areas necessary for the program, while promoting the compactness of the whole and thus ensuring better energy performance. More fundamentally, this work allows the restoration of open spaces and the block is considerably aerated.

The structure is mixed: slab and floor in reinforced concrete for thermal inertia, spans and the absence of finishing, steel posts fully integrated into the insulated walls, steel frame entirely made with the elements of the existing dismantled frame.

Inside, the floors were made of rammedearth and the walls were plastered with clay, two totally circular products, made from the unpolluted and undisturbed excavated earth of the urban sites of Brussels. The terrazzo terrace slabs are made from reused materials (dismantled facades).

The workshop is covered with galvanized corrugated sheets selected for their low cost, longevity and ability to reflect solar heat. The same criteria determined the choice of anodized aluminum frames. The industrial language is a deliberate nod to the workshop’s past.