House Burst

Burst, Erpe-Mere, Belgium

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House Burst

Burst, Erpe-Mere, Belgium

Firm

De Smet Vermeulen Architecten

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2012

Photos

Dennis De Smet Photographs (10)

The house stands along a country road between two parish churches on a large stretch
of land sloping down toward the street. What should a country house look like today - the
question was immanent. One would expect a small cottage parallel to the road with a
barn behind it. We wanted something just as proper. The lofty barn and the cottage with
its dormer windows grew into one volume. The skin reveals these transformations. The
smaller rooms along the street façade communicate with the living rooms sitting higher
on the slope. Together they constitute both a split-level house with interconnected rooms
and a sequence of separate atmospheres. Abstraction is muted by equivocal
reminiscences. The combination of rustic and bourgeois imagery in the interiors projects
an openness to different views. Airtight, energy efficient, robust and made of renewable
resources the house was built to last.