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.











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

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Michiel Hutsebaut, Marie Lafosse
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

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

Constructed in neo-classical style, this 1926 interbellum house is part of the protected historic ‘Miljoenenkwartier’ quarter, that was shaped by the World Expo in Ghent.
As the building was fairly well preserved and still holds a lot of its original charm, our main ambition was to respect the most valuable authentic building elements, whilst thoroughly reshaping the building into a modern multi-family house.
The project benefits from the unique historic architectural qualities, adding a modern and sustainable touch to the existing building. We managed to create a high-end residency, composed of 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 luminous bel-étage living quarters and a master bedroom, opening onto the garden.











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

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