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

FELT teamed up with DOORZON in the competition for the interior design & scenography for the new KMSKA.














Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: KMSKA
Surface: 25000 sqm
Phase: Competition (2nd place)

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Caroline Lateur, Stefanie Everaert, Bram Denkens, Seppe Claes
Consultants: Chris Pype (light), LAVA (graphic & interaction design)
Model Photos: Barbara Joseph
Images: FELT+DOORZON

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

When asked to design a new townhouse as a 'starters home' by AG Vespa, we decided to literally think of the house as a starting point: A simple house, as a first step to fulfill the principal demand in the most economic and rigid way. But together with the main house, anticipating on growth and rising budgets, we also designed a series of complementary add-ons.
Rather than giving way to a series of - belgian-style- future 'ad hoc' extensions , we created a set of 'toppings': Seemingly independent architectural objects providing different spatial qualities and accessory functionality. Dispensable yet essential, just like the chocolate sprinkles on your frozen yoghurt.










Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: AG Vespa
Surface: 120 sqm
Phase: Preliminary design

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Samuele Xompero
Consultants: Robuust
Images: FELT

The museum lobby or ‘antichambre' was conceived by Beel Architects as no more than a kind of ‘hub': a space that helps the public in orienting towards the galleries, the ticket desk or the cafetaria. The architecture is therefore frugal and provides no more than the intended function asks for, merely the space itself. It is no wonder that, when the functional needs extended (multimedia desk, promotion, shop, kids-corner…), ad hoc additions transformed it into a place of clutter. Leaving the original architecture and its clear lines unattended.
The challenge therefore was to incorporate these new functions in the space without neglecting - and even recovering, the purity of the spacial concept inherent in the architecture. The proposal therefore consist of a single intervention. Namely the introduction of three mirroring cubes in the antichambre. Their scale holds an intermediate between architecture and furniture, making them operate on a separate level. When spread out in the space they reflect their surroundings, reinforcing the architecture by adding new perspectives. Opposed to their identical exterior their interiors are highly specific. Bright primal colors mark their different functions and add fragments of color to the sober interior of the Antichambre.



Location: BE, Leuven
Client: Museum M
Surface: -
Phase: Ongoing

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

This listed interbellum house dates back to 1926. It was constructed in neo-classical style and is part of the protected historic ‘Miljoenenkwartier’ quarter, that was shaped by the World Expo in Ghent.

Apart from some unfortunate interventions at the back, the building has been fairly well preserved and still holds a lot of its original charm. Therefore our main ambition was to respect the most valuable authentic building elements, whilst thoroughly reshaping the building into a modern multi-family house, as we were commissioned to do.

Through continuous communication with all involved parties, we succeeded in designing a widely supported project that capitalizes on the unique historical architectural qualities, and ads modern and more sustainable architectural value to the existing building. In this way we created a high-end residency containing three separate housing units: Two fully accessible one bedroom apartments on the top floors, and a luxurious duplex home on the lowest floors, consisting of very luminous belle-etage living quarters and a master-bedroom opening onto the garden.





Location: BE, Ghent
Client: private
Surface: 430 sqm
Phase: building permit

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens
Consultants: STIR
Photos/Images: FELT

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 movement. 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: Ongoing

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













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

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Bartolomeo Zanotti
Consultants: Chris Pype (light)
Photos: Filip Dujardin (C)
Images: FELT
Construction: 3CS

When Thomas More published Utopia in 1506, nobody knew where the island was located. Today, thanks to Google, every square inch of land is mapped. Gone mystery, gone imagination. On top of that almost all land is crammed. Luckily there is still the ocean, as more or less uncultivated terrain.
When CANVAS asked us to design a current day Utopia we envisioned an inverted-island: An oversized ring, reclaiming land. Conceived as a giant retaining wall, it is a singular architectural gesture that is at once building and city. It is completely detached from the world around it, but the land it holds on the ocean floor can provide the goods for its inhabitants. Utopia meets Atlantis, let’s say.







Client: CANVAS
Phase: Study
Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Samuele Xompero
Consultants: 3CS, Van den Weghe

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

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

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

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

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

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