FELT won the Open Oproep competition for a new primary school adjacent to an existing nursery school. The design tallies perfectly with the surrounding town, residential area and meadows of the valley. The compact building is positioned near the border of the site, providing a large space for the school’s playground and a green corridor with a path. The new building is designed in tune with the architecture of existing nursery school through the use of style, materials and appropriate sizing. The scheme of the building is characterized by its rational and economic structure. The building consists of two wings connected by a central hall. This renders a clear and straight-forward scheme with an efficient circulation. The west wing is directed towards the landscape and hosts nine classes: pitch roof classes and garden classes. The other wing is directed towards the playground and the nursery school and makes up the gymnasium and the refectory.





Location: BE, Zarren
Client: Muncipality of Kortemark
Surface: 2000 sqm
Phase: Building Permit

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Adrian Verhoijsen, Elise Candry, Jan Haerens
Consultants: BAS, Henk Pijpaert Engineering, Studio Basta

The idea for this Award-winning project for the 2014 Interior Biennale in Kortrijk (BE) derives from the consideration that space is a scarce good on most fairs. Booths are crammed side to side and constantly screaming for the public’s attention. Therefor a visit can be a tiring experience. It not only leaves you head ached, thirsty and hungry, usually it also makes you look for the nearest escape. In this context Behind the Curtain can be understood as a reclaiming of space. In the same way a city park can be an escape from busy traffic, this project offers a pause from the noise and visual overload of the event. Besides food and drinks, this bar’s biggest asset is space, arranged along the solid base of a beautiful marble bar and softly wrapped by a silky curtain. Some places will be quite intimate, other parts will show a glimpse of the passing crowd. But all seats will be comfortably embraced by the curtain. It mutes the noise, filters the views and creates a stylish but cozy atmosphere. The shape of its spline makes it at the same time inviting and excluding, as it pulls in and pushes away. The arrangement is simple and therefor flexible. A composition of two linear stone elements organizes the space. Above them a white and translucent fabric defines the limitations. In the center the bar is clearly marked by the brass countertops that contain all the necessary commodities. Along the length the stone counters turn into communal tables. A layout that can accommodate a group of diners as easily as it can offer a retreat for a salesman catching up on his mails, while he enjoys a cappuccino.










Location: BE, Kortrijk
Client: Biennale Interieur

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Photos: Bart Kiggen, Filip Dujardin
Images: FELT

Five hundred years ago Thomas More wrote his infamous masterpiece "Utopia". The importance and influence of his book throughout the last five centuries has been astounding. On the occasion of this anniversary Illuminare (Centre for the Study of Medieval Art - KU Leuven) and Museum M initiated the exhibition "In Search of Utopia", curated by professor Jan Van der Stock. FELT designed the winning proposal for the scenography. Expected to open october 2016.













Location: BE, Leuven
Client: Museum M
Surface: 1200 sqm
Phase: Opening October 2016

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Bartolomeo Zanotti
Consultants: -
Images: FELT

At the outskirts of the quaint Belgian city of Ghent we encounter an idiosyncratic renovation of a classic Flemish townhouse. The original building was wrapped within a new envelope, delineating the new volume. Carrying three facades, the building is situated on the end of a row of houses. This unique position provides the dwelling three different opportunities of sunlight, a 270° panoramic view and its very own secret garden. The frontal façade is an iteration of the adjacent classical rhythm and white stucco. In contrast the lateral façade is highly specific, suiting its role as the corner piece of the street. The shape still refers to the blank façade of the old building but the wooden vertical cladding and a series of seemingly randomly arranged square windows clearly mark its singularity. A jigsaw of dwelling types can be found within the volume. In the old building three studios are organized around a staircase which leads to the street. While the extension is taken in by the family house and entered through a separate entrance from the side. The ground floor is reserved for a garage, the hall and an office opening up to the harmoniously designed stone garden. The full width and depth of the first floor is occupied by the living room and flanked by a spacious terrace on the South side. The second floor houses the bedrooms, whereas the top floor is conceived as a kind of “crow's nest”. A versatile space that could serve as workshop, guestroom or private sanctuary containing a small outside space where one can enjoy the magnificent view of the nearby river and marvel at the gloaming sundown.





Location: BE, Ghent
Client: private
Surface: 550 sqm
Phase: built

Team: Jasper Stevens (FELT) with 360 architecten
Consultants: LIME, Robuust
Photos: Filip Dujardin (exterior), FELT

The exhibition "Thirty Years of Architecture in Flanders - The Wonder Years in architectural models" features the groundbreaking and pioneering projects from that period. It offers a comprehensive overview of the leading figures, facts and events that have contributed to the flourishing architectural culture of Flanders.














Location: BE, Knokke-Heist
Client: Vlaams Architectuur Instituut
Surface: 800 sqm
Phase: Opening 25 October 2015

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bartolomeo Zanotti, Esmeralda Misseghers
Consultants: Bureau Grusenmeyer (Graphic design)
Photos: Stijn Bollaert

The project site is situated in a very dense neighborhood with a serious lack of public space. Our site, a courtyard inside a building block, is currently used as a parking lot. The projects goal was to create a new home base for the Chiro-youth. Concepts like flexibility, durability and multiversity were paramount. FELT therefore designed a highly compact building, saving budget in space for the thorough renovation of the courtyard. Turning it into a multi-functional square and/or playground. This way the project accommodates not only the demands of the client, it also seizes the opportunity to contribute to the public realm in this overpopulated neighborhood.














Location: BE, Sint-Jans Molenbeek
Client: Chiro Jijippeke
Surface: -
Phase: Preliminary Design

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Adrian Verhoijsen
Consultants: BALT
Images: FELT

A reconversion of an existing row house.














Location: BE, Gentbrugge
Client: Private
Surface: -
Phase: Final Design

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens
Consultants: -
Images: FELT

Based on Carolyn Steel's bestseller "The hungry City", MAS initiated an exhibition that entails the rich history, present and future of Antwerp perceived trough food. FELT's proposal was nominated as winner of the international call.













Location: BE, Antwerpen
Client: MAS
Surface: -
Phase: Opened May 2016

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Esmeralda Misseghers, Bram Denkens
Consultants: LAVA (graphic design), Pantopicon (curator, glass pavillion)
Photos: Pieter Kers
Images: FELT

In 2012 the clients bought a discarded construction trailer from the local municipality with the idea of using it as a place to rest, play or study for them and their two sons. The trailer was pulled to the back of their garded by a neighbouring farmer. We decided to completely strip and replace the existing finishings. The archetypical rounded roof shape of the trailer was copied inside and finished in plywood. The outside was covered with small strips of oak. The husk was only interrupted by a large circular opening: a dome-shaped skylight was mounted upon the facade allowing light and the surrounding meadows to enter the space. A flexible organisation with shelves on different heights was designed for the interior; this way the trailer could be arranged as a place to sleep, as well as a place to study or party. All the construction works were carried out by the client himself.











Location: BE, Vlimmeren
Client: private
Surface: 8 sqm
Phase: Built

Team: Karel Verstraeten
Photos: FELT

This compact single-family home houses a studio on the first floor and a double physiotherapist practice in the base. Towards the streetside two curved half-brick walls cradle two small gardens, preventing gawking from the outside and providing a green extension to the practice spaces as well.













Location: BE, Lubbeek
Client: private
Surface: 390 sqm
Phase: Built

Team: Karel Verstraeten
Consultants: I'm With Alice, EA+
Photos: FELT

The historical site and the significant atmosphere of the former Jenever brewery presented a great merit for the museum. The remodeling of the unique architecture was hence kept to a bare minimum and was solely carried out to guaranty a functional accessibility and to preserve the heritage value of the building. One could describe the overall style of the architecture as “Flemish rural”; characterized by heavy wooden trusses and an abundance of crude brickwork. Elements that amount to a sturdy and rather dark setting for a new exhibition - not exactly the generic white cubes one often encounters. Therefore the scenography introduced a new lightness within the building and tried to negotiate an interesting balance between both bodies. Slender and gracile white structures were positioned between the bulky beams. A juxtaposition that resulted in a continuous interplay between dark and light, solid and slim, old and new. The aim of this strategy was to create a dialogue between the two entities, and by doing so, to incorporate the building into the exposition. The old brewery was embraced in the same way as the collection itself. Framed in white structures, it helps telling the intriguing story of this unique spirit. Throughout the exposition this approach translated in different setups, of which the mirroring metabolism box probably is the most surprising. Positioned askew the grid of columns it creates a vertiginous effect, subtly mimicking the effect of alcohol on our perception. On the floor beneath a construction of steel structures form a giant wheel, displaying the different flavors and spices used in the brewing process. Here visitors can explore their own preferences before ordering a Jenever - at last - to top off their visit in style.




Location: BE, Hasselt
Client: Muncipality of Hasselt
Surface: 1200 sqm
Phase: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Thomas Roelandts
Project team: MADOC, Superdamned, Koen Bruyneel, Ineke Wellens
Photos: Bart Kiggen

Location: various

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Photos: FELT

Capacity study and masterplan for a challenging building plot in Nieuwpoort.

















Location: BE, Nieuwpoort
Client: Private
Phase: Pending

Team: Karel Verstraeten, Jan Haerens
Consultants: Studiebureau Context