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Published in DIVISARE BOOKS issue #109

The client of Wall House procured a parcel of land across the street from his home as a parking lot for his vehicles. ADS was approached to provide for a garage structure with staff quarters above. Given its simple program, ADS convinced the client to use

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

Complete transformation of an existing office building by Studio Anton Hendrik Denys in collaboration with Steen Architecten. Tucked away in an industrial zone in central Belgium, a wavy silver-coloured facade and a vibrant wild garden instantly mesmerise

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

What is the appropriate form for a mundane building task that still dates from the age of the combustion engine? For an almost century-old family business in its third generation on the threshold of the energy transition, the administrative offices were t

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

Conversion of the former bathing hall of Beringen-Mine into a school The project is situated in one of the Industrial Heritage buildings of Beringen-Mine. Part of the largest industrial heritage site in Flanders, the former bathing halls will be converted

The people of the Colombian capital saw themselves losing hope in the idea of in-person Easter celebrations as the prospects of a third wave of Covid-19 cases intensified. Colombian culture at large is fundamentally religious, and social distancing measur

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

Reportage Le Corbusier by Cemal Emden

58, rue de Mouzaia, Paris 19th: at this address, a representative work of brutalism was delivered in 1974, co-signed by Claude Parent and André Remondet. However, after 45 years of existence, the building had lost its visual strength: blackened surfaces,

Part of Casa Wabi's foundation mission, is to encourage, generate knowledge and new skills in the children in the region. Casa Wabi's staff identified that teaching the technique and the process for handling clay would be a very positive tool for the comm