Frankfort House

Belgium

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Frankfort House

Belgium

Firm

Pierre Hebbelinck - Atelier d'architecture

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2002

This conversion of a building on an irregularly shaped lot is part make-over and part sublimated living concept. The found situation was straightforward: a three-storey house with a double-pitch roof, and well-focused forms blurred by volumes added on over the years. Hebbelinck decided to strip the building down to reveal the original decorative brickwork that had been concealed as new layers were added. This was neither an exercise in nostalgia nor an attempt to make an architectural point: the aim was to reveal the history and life of the house by highlighting its most important surviving features. The concept has been taken so literally that there are windows on the ground floor only, so has to emphasis the thickness of the walls. On the upper floors, thick cylindrical glass blocks have been carefully positioned in the brick work to create interesting, irregularly spaced lighting effects both inside and outside the house. Complementing the existing materials, Hebbelinck has added a radically- conceived sculptural object, as dramatically positioned (parallel to the slope of the hillside) as it is simple in design. In reality this zinc structure containing the staircase puts a modern slant on the traditional architectural feature of the external staircase added on to the main part of the house, making the fronts and the volumes more dynamic in compositional terms.

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Frankfort House

Belgium

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Belgium

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