- Space:
200 m²
Yr:
2021
Textual content description supplied by the architects. VNBC is a metamorphosis of a household dwelling in Brussels. A part of a set of employee’s homes constructed within the 50’s within the residential and really inexperienced district of Boitsfort, within the south of town, this home was composed of three very closed facades on the skin and of a number of small areas with none connection or fluidity between one another.
The will of the purchasers was to enlarge the home whereas guaranteeing a sequence of high quality areas, improve the connection to the backyard and enhance the pure gentle.
The prompt response consists of the interpretation and extension of the quite simple, virtually sq., plan of the home; this, whereas respecting and enhancing the identification of the home and sustaining a transparent readability of the serving areas and people served. Via the intervention, the brand new areas are expanded and differentiated whereas strongly linked to one another.
Surrounded by greenery, the residing areas are generously opened to the outside.
The simplicity of the intervention and the readability of the areas mark the standard of the mission.
The construction is left obvious and defines the extension via a transparent expression of the modularity of the design and the flexibility of areas.
The problem was to protect the identification of the prevailing parts and adapt them to the brand new purposeful and energetical necessities of a up to date dwelling.
A restructuring of the areas on the primary flooring and an extension on the roof provide fluidity and welcoming family- life.
The chosen supplies converse with the encircling textures and hues. The enameled brick of the extensions reinterpret and lengthen the prevailing brick whereas distinguishing the brand new from the pre-existent. The identical philosophy was utilized to the roof tiles.
