House “Satiya”
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Program: Extension of a small houseClient: Private Location: Kraainem, BelgiumPrincipal architects: adn
Architectures Project team: David Henquinet, Nicolas
Iacobellis, Didier Vander Heyden Floor area: 350 m2 Start of planning: 2006 Completion: 01/2010Photograph: Filip DujardinThe client
wished to transform and extend his house to be able to accommodate a large
family. The existing situation, a working house of the years '30 of 100 m ²,
consequently will become a resolutely contemporary house of 350 m ². The first
will is to include the extension in continuity with the neighbourhood (inclined
roof, black tiles, white painted bricks, etc). Secondly, the intention is to
reflect on creative architecture, as well by its external/interior geometry, as
by a more significant dimension (reflexion on textures of the external facing
amongst other things). The extension results in a principle of envelope
recovering a volume in which the included spaces are conceived like
functionalized boxes. A play of full and vacuum is set up and expresses the
will of close, direct, generous relations between the various levels. The
external openings meet the internal needs for the house, with the specific
choices of sights on the external environment, like the run of the sun during
the day. The street front defines clearly the position of the entrance.
External and interior volume is a set of diagonals inducing a dynamics of
space. The choice of abstraction by the black & white is a desire to
propose the conceptual aspect of the project while allowing architecture built
to put itself “besides”, to allow the space to live as such.