Villa VH in T

Belgium

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Villa VH in T

Belgium

Firm

Beel & Achtergael Architecten

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2009

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

The client wanted a house where he could relax in calm
and privacy among his family and friends and enjoy his extensive art
collection.

The site for the building is on a mixed vernacular residential
/ light industrial street close to the clients companies offices.

While the general surroundings at the rear of the plot
are agricultural and offer a quiet perspective, there is considerable traffic
at the front.

In this project we therefore tried to create “a little
world on its own” by arranging all dwelling quarters on the ground floor in a
U-shape around an open air courtyard.

On the inside of this shape a continuous glass wall opens
the generous circulation and living rooms to this “heart”, the social core of
the house. Designed for easy living, it is here that guests are invited to
enjoy the light, space and art.

To the outside the walls of the building are mostly closed
however: smooth surfaces of white plasterwork, only sparsely punctuated with
large windows where needed for the more intimate rooms that cradle the transparent
inner space.

The first floor is reserved for business and
recreational seclusion: discrete volumes house an office and a media room and
give shape to the silhouette of the house, their distinct windows catching
north light and looking across the surrounding fields.