Architect: dmvA architecten
Type: Apartment
Concept: ‘Vernacular’
Team: Liesbet De Winter, Michaël De Roeck, Sofie Buggenhout, Thomas Denturck, Valerie Lonnoy
Photographer: Vercruysse and Dujardin
Architects Homepage: www.dmva-architecten.be

The building volume of the six apartments was derived from the rural archetypes “greenhouse” and “barn” The repetition of the roof-form is a reference to the typology of the greenhouses in this area of glass-horticulture. Each rooftop refers to an apartment.

The irregular shape of the ground-plan was derived from the building-site and the maximum built-up area. For this reason the roof-side on the left stretches out to one meter above surface. This way the building volume gets the character of a typical 19th century Kempen barn.

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Posted on Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 2:19 am and is filed under Apartments.
Tags: Belgium Apartments, greenhouses, Kempen barn, Thomas Denturck, Valerie Lonnoy.