The passive home offers high-quality city dwelling a spot in a hidden nook of Brussels’ metropolis heart. On a really shallow plot between excessive condominium buildings, the home presents an thrilling dwelling resolution. The constructing typology blends a constructing with an industrial character and a mansion, each constructing sorts attribute of the neighborhood.
The window division is, just like industrial structure, very common and ordered. A big bay window marks the doorway and organizes the façade composition. It’s a reference to the attribute structure of the realm, with out being historicizing.
The principle element of the constructing is red-brown brick, cross-masonry in an alternation of colorless glazed and non-glazed bricks. The brick shell folds across the corners on the nines and sides of window openings and of the bay window. The exceptional brick bond is a well-thought-out sample of 5 totally different sizes minimize from the identical standard brick. Lintels and sills are product of glazed brick that match the brickwork’s colour.
Bovenbouw changed the two-story workshop, unfold out over the lot creating difficulties to get daylight into the rooms, with a stacked single-family home, assembly the size of the prevailing buildings on the street. Stacking this system on high of one another resolves into brilliant, open, and spacious sun-trough rooms. The tough lot’s form resulted in an eccentric positioning of the oval staircase within the again.
On the bottom flooring, a welcoming entrance guides you in direction of the steps with orange-colored balustrades. Rounded partitions created a clean route from the entrance door in direction of the staircase. The rounding has been integrated right into a leitmotif in reveals and corners. The blind protrusion within the facade gives a discrete location of a TV nook and a rest room. On high of it, a beneficiant south-facing terrace overlooks the road.
Architects: Bovenbouw; 12 months: 2020; Pictures:David de Bruijn; Lead Architects: Dirk Somers, Nicolas de Paepe, Carole Boeckx, Sander Laureys, Marius Grootveld, Nuño Zapata; Engineering: RACO;
Supply: Inside Zine
