A 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 forest. Next to the home we create a small clearing in the forest allowing the sun to reach to living spaces.

FELT is renovating a midcentury bungalow in Ghent for a single family.

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 fulfil 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 '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: 110 sqm
Status: Executed

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

FELT together with Raamwerk were invited for the competition for a new care housing facility in Stekene.












Location: BE, Stekene
Client: VESTA vzw
Surface: 6800 sqm Status: Competition


With: Raamwerk
FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Lucas van Remoortel, Sarai Olabarrieta
Technical Consultants: Robuust, Plant en Houtgoed
Images: FELT, Raamwerk

FELT designed a small extension for a single family house in Eke. The wedge-shaped extension houses a library with home office space. The load bearing bookshelves carry the roof of this all-wooden construction. The space opens up towards the back garden and adjacent meadows.











Location: BE, Eke
Client: Private
Surface: 60 sqm
Status: Execution

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Judith De Pau, Lucas Van Remoortel
Images: FELT & Woema

FELT extends a detached single-family house by adding a hat-shaped second story. The first floor with a rational floor plan accommodates three bedrooms and a bathroom. A double-height dining space with barrel vaulted ceiling playfully links the two floors.











Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Private
Surface: 165 sqm
Status: Execution

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Elisabeth Van Kerckhove
Consultants: Vesting
Images: FELT

In the center of a densely built city area, a small alley leads to an irregularly shaped building plot. On this site FELT designed a single-family home with studio space. Breaking up the functions into different volumes creates a spatially generous house embracing a lush city garden.











Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Private
Surface: 345 sqm
Status: Building permit

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Marie Lafosse, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Mouton, Vesting
Images: FELT

A series of ill-considered construction works and decades of neglect and squatting left these three majestic houses in a terrible condition. Apart from the facades all was lost, so we faced no other option than to start anew. Behind the renovated facades three identical new and sustainable townhouses will be constructed.
The section shows how a central staircase creates a split level situation, able to join the high ceilings in the front with compact bedrooms at the back. The living areas are organised on the top floors where they can connect with the terrace. The verticality of the section is complemented by a chimney-like brick shaft that pierces through the wooden construction and joins all technical installations in one element.




Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: AG Vespa
Surface: 380 sqm
Status: Tender

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Judith De Pau, Marie Lafosse, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: UTIL, ROBUUST, EA+
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

FELT designs a coworking parc in Ghent.







Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Private
Surface: 8750 sqm
Status: Building permit

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Judith de Pau
Consultants: Arthur De Roover
Images: FELT

Bvba Ofnee + Duvel Moortgat entrusted us with the interior design of the brand new KultuurKaffee PILAR at the VUB campus Brussels.

We designed a wooden canopy to improve the acoustic comfort and added a most welcome splash of color to the austere concrete interior.










Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Duvel Moortgat
Surface: 165 sqm
Status: execution

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

To convert it into a care home for mental health patients an existing villa is stripped to its bare structure, taking away the roof. From there, using the existing structural logic of parallel walls, a new plan is developed consisting of a generous hallway linking a series of independent studios. The same concept is repeated in the extension that houses a second commune.
The rhythm in the plan translates into a specific façade that consist of a repetitive series of gables unifying old and new. The concept shows the individual units within the compound - as if little houses, while at the same time expressing the collectivity of the residence as a hole. Living under one roof… or not really?











Location: BE, Merksplas
Client: vzw Emmaus
Surface: 850 sqm
Result: competition 1st place

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Judith de Pau, Marie Lafosse, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Robuust
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

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

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 embrace 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
Status: built

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