A house that was built in the interwar period now opens out to the garden at one of its corners by means of new glass facades protected by the emphatic eave of the new roof. The traditional partitions have been blurred through alteration of the loadb
A daycare center emulates the angular gables of the neighboring church through a rhythmic succession of two-pitched volumes, tracing a silhouette that the children can easily recognize. While the facades present a brick bond that engages in dialogue
The renovation of a house for an artist has incorporated a sliding roof that can make the backyard an additional room between the main construction and the atelier located behind. Vertical circulation is through a metal staircase that pierces through
Through a simple gesture, this barn is converted into a livable space: an incision empties out a section of the volume to generate a new access and improve lighting. On one side of the cut, glass; on the other, a mirror that creates an optical effect
The Brooklyn firm SO-IL designed ‘Common Thread’ for the Bruges Triennial of 2024, ongoing until 1 September. Executed in collaboration with Mariana Popescu (TU Delft) and Summum Engineering, the pavilion meanders through the courtyard of a 19th-cent
The idea is to refurbish an existing 6,500-square-meter office building of the historic company Breda Siderurgica, located in Bicocca, a district of Milan. The full renovation, inside and out, encompasses three above-ground floor levels plus the base
Located in the heart of the old quarter of the Belgian city, the Bruges Meeting & Convention Centre presents a facade of brick columns in the reddish brown that is part of the Belgian city’s palette of colors. The building rests on a glass plinth
Europe’s largest facility for urban food production has begun operations in a monumental greenhouse set on the roof of a major vegetable and fruit auction cooperative. Strict regulation of hygrothermal conditions is guaranteed through the formation o
A tower containing unobstructed spaces is the solution adopted on a small plot from which a ‘fab lab’ seeks to take part in revitalizing the port area of the city of Caen. The brief left the program largely undefined, which gave rise to a series of s
The Ghent firm headed by Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck, and Jo Taillieu transformed Sint-Jozef, raised in the 19th century, into a facility with communal spaces for the psyquiatric center of Caritas in Melle, in Belgium's Flanders region. A group of phys
The tower goes up in a former gravel extraction area now converted into the nature reserve of RivierPark Maasvallei. The outer walls were built with local materials – 20% gravel, 40% ocher-colored earth, and 40% clay, stabilized with trass – in seven
In an old carbon mine, a square of sides measuring 37.5 meters encloses a one kilometer long maze where visitors walk among five millimeter thick steel walls and experience fragmented perspectives generated through Boolean transformations.
This center for assisted living is located in a clearing of a small forest in Zoersel, a village on the outskirts of the city of Antwerp (Belgium). Its irregularly sinuous floor plan follows the positions of the trees, in an endeavor to endow the bui
