Housing

This house, located in the city of Ghent, was developed in order to provide a generous and spacious family home on a very narrow plot. The various residential functions are stacked in split levels around a central staircase. This strengthens the relation

The 199m2 retrofitted barn sits within a 25-acre site of green fields and is part of a wider long-term strategy, which is being developed by the clients and the practice, to regenerate and rewild the secluded site, turning an agricultural relic into the h

Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2019. First Prize This is a house for our mothers, both of whom always wanted to have bigger families and bigger houses in which to live together as families. Really, it is a house for any kind of big family, wh

The renovation of this double fronted federation house uses a series of considered openings and a carefully positioned addition to maximise the size and feel through connection to outdoor spaces. At the front of the site, the original brick section of the

The program —mixing social and free market housing in coexistence and without differences—demands practically the consumption of the available building volume. This constraint, together with the demands for efficiency and simplicity that we impose on ours

The Federal House provides a vessel through which to enable habitation and the ongoing experience of a particular place and time. Within the folding hills of its hinterland site, the home acts as both experiential container for this place and as a conditi

We told ourselves, that we’re going to let the space stand out and work just with it. We want these huge open volumes, because it’s all about having that airy space. About seeing from one side of the apartment to another. About feeling of openness and sim

“San Riemo” is the first housing project realised by the KOOPERATIVE GROSSSTADT, a housing cooperative founded in 2015. The building, located on the outskirts of Munich close to its trade fair, was completed in December 2020. It contains 27 flats as well

This housing project is part of a new neighbourhood on the site of a former barracks. The master plan of the Bayernkaserne is conceived as an orthogonal grid, defining an urban landscape of large blocks. The building is organised around a garden and has a

With its thoughtful design, Blok N adds high quality social housing to the heritage listed Jeruzalem neighbourhood. We wanted to give a new view on social housing, one focused on high quality and adding an unexpected layer of beauty.
 Blok N completes the

The 40 subsidised housings are divided over 2 oblong volumes that are oriented from the north to the south, resulting in an east-west orientation for the housings themselves. The small low volume is four-storey high and holds 8 duplex flats with private g

In 2018 the freelancing sculptural artist Ms. Monika Rienössl decided to return to the place she grew up and to renovate the abandoned house along the main street of the small village of Neuaigen in Lower Austria which was in a bad state of repair. For d

The place is an old work yard, typical for Basel and the quarter. It is one of the few city blocks that has never been completely closed by buildings in the course of its history. This encouraged us to let the building, as it were, peep out of the courtya

The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung is located in the city district of Hietzing on the western edge of Vienna.

We had the opportunity to acquire a property at a very favorable price in a prominent location in the village of Berin- gen in Klettgau. We wanted to use this to implement our idea of architecture by means of a replacement building. In order for this to s

Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume. In our quest for buildability, affordability, circular, energetic and e

ROOM WITH VIEW What do you see? I see the air full of ideas, the trees undulating, the inhabited void, the boundaries evaporating, the city and its blocks, the dawn, the day, the twilight and the night, the images scrolling by, the garden in the center, t

Single family house renovation. Published in DIVISARE BOOKS issue #95

The project is a non-invasive single family house in the middle of a rural building block. Although mainly underground, it looks out over the surroundings. The main asset is the logical tectonic structure, which gives birth to both the spatial and -via th

gjG House is one of the experimental houses BLAF architecten is known for in Flanders and beyond. It is part of their research called ‘Brick Wall City’, that addresses the precise relationship between material, construction and the appearance of brick arc

Suzu is a project in Kyoto, Japan, that consisted of the renovation of two houses that co-inhabit the same land but that more than seven decades separate their architectural styles and construction methods. The two houses share the same entrance from the

No context is irrelevant to a new building. And often the site itself generates conditions affecting the project in almost every decision. This is not the case with this house. The sun, the geometry of the plot -almost square with a chamfer-, a neighbour

House C-VL – an original take on a bungalow renovation In renovating this 1960s-era bungalow, certain areas in the house were kept undefined. This left a lot of room for the personal interpretation of the residents, so that the house came to life very spo