Our client wants to build a livelong home for his mentally challenged granddaughter. They set up an alliance with vzw Emmaus and looked for a plot close to their premises. The site is a beautiful stretch of woodland which we sought to preserve as much as possible. Therefore we conceived the house as a singular and compact volume: a hexagon. It holds eight studios, six on the first floor and two on the ground floor, plus auxiliary functions and communal living spaces. Each studio is located on a corner giving them a double orientation and views on the surrounding woodlands. Next to the home we create a small clearing in the forest allowing the sun to reach to living spaces.











Location: BE, Zoersel
Client: Private
Surface: 500 sqm
Status: design

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT

The existing house is located right next to the church of Heffen, a genuine Flemish village of rare beauty. It is characterized by a picturesque front in stark contrast with a big black side facade. A somewhat strange but rather appealing presence on the village square which - we found - was in no need of an intervention. We therefore decided to keep the old entrance, leading the customers around the house towards the garden at the back, from where they enter the restaurant directly in the open kitchen, which we organized in the barn behind the house. For the dining space we designed a new pavilion: A light wooden structure, stained black, that is positioned freely in the idyllic walled garden.











Location: BE, Heffen
Client: Private
Surface: 300 sqm
Status: design

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT

For this idiosyncratic renovation, the original building was wrapped in a new envelope, delineating a new volume. The front is designed as an iteration of the adjacent classical rhythm in white stucco. In contrast, suiting its role as a corner piece for the street, the lateral facade is clad in wood and characterized by a series of seemingly randomly arranged windows
Next to the studios in the existing volume, the extension is conceived as an independent town house containing ‘bel-étage’ living spaces flanked by a large terrace and a ground floor that opens up to a harmoniously designed stone garden. The top floor is conceived as a kind of “crow's nest”, looking over the nearby river and the city.











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

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

The ‘sous-sol’ of this belle-époque townhouse in Brussels was completely refurbished, turning it into a luxuries studio apartment. At the back the façade was opened up towards the garden, extending the kitchen space onto a new private courtyard. The interior features a unique material pallet consisting of warm teak wood wall coverings, sage green cement flooring, charcoal colored fiber cement cupboards, a marbles composite kitchen counter and custom designed brass fittings.











Location: BE, Vorst (Brussels)
Client: Private
Surface: 60 sqm
Status: built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen
Images: 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: 200 sqm
Status: tender

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

The design frees the main volume of the house from a series of annexes that had left it deprived from sunlight. In stead we propose a seemingly independent addition at the back of the building zone. It is conceived as a pavilion-like volume containing the new living room and the master bedroom on top, both looking out over the garden. A fully glazed double height corridor flanked by a patio, links up old and new. It houses the kitchen and is cut trough by a walkway connecting the master bedroom on the first floor with the rest of the house.











Location: BE, Gentbrugge
Client: Private
Surface: 200 sqm
Phase: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens
Consultants: I'm With Alice, EA+
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.
We decided to completely strip and replace the existing finishings. Inside, the archetypical rounded roof shape is copied and finished in plywood. The outside is covered with small strips of oak. The husk is only interrupted by a large circular opening: a dome-shaped skylight was mounted upon the facade allowing light and the surrounding meadows to enter. A flexible organization with shelves on different heights was designed for the interior; this way the trailer can be arranged as a place to sleep, as well as to work or play.











Location: BE, Vlimmeren
Client: private
Surface: 8 sqm
Status: built

Team: Karel Verstraeten
Images: FELT