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Villa Kameleon, Zoersel

2017-2021
Architecture, Private, Health

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Villa Kameleon, Zoersel

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.

Villa Kameleon, Zoersel

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

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Michiel Hutsebaut, Marie Lafosse
Consultants: Robuust
Images: FELT

City Hall Leuven

2019-...
Architecture, Cultural, Heritage, Public

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City Hall Leuven

FELT together with aNNo architecten won the invited competition for the renovation, restoration and reprogramming of the renown Gothic City Hall of Leuven. The winning design was praised for its mindful dealing with the historical context, the unambiguity of the new architectural gesture and the all encompassing approach towards the broader challenge of reprogramming heritage.

City Hall Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: City of Leuven
Surface: 7830 sqm
Status: Final design

In collaboration with aNNo architecten, 88888, Atelier Arne Deruyter

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Judith de Pau, Lucas van Remoortel, Michiel Hutsebaut, Sarai Olabarrieta, Léa Guillotin, Emma Margo
Consultants: BAS, Ingenium, Scala, Endeavour

Images: MakeMe, FELT

Elementary School, Zarren

2014 - 2018
Architecture, Education, Public

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Elementary School, Zarren

FELT won the Open Oproep competition for a new primary school in Zarren. The new building aims at blending in with its surroundings and is designed in tune with the adjacent nursery school. A compact two-story volume is positioned in a way it maximizes the open space. Thus creating a big playground that can extend in a public square, linking with the town’s center.
The building itself is characterized by its rational and economic structure consisting of two wings connected by a central hall. This renders a clear and straightforward circulation scheme. The west wing is directed towards the landscape and contains nine classrooms. The other wing houses the more public functions and is directed towards the playground and the town.

Elementary School, Zarren

Location: BE, Zarren
Client: Municipality of Kortemark
Surface: 2000 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens, Valerie Maes, Elise Candry, Jan Haerens
Consultants: BAS, HP engineers, Erik Geens, Studio Basta
Graphic design & signage: Janine Kopatz
Images: FELT, Stijn Bollaert

Finish Tower, Ghent

2022-
Architecture, Public, Sports & Recreation

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Finish Tower, Ghent

FELT won the invited competition for the building of a new jury-tower overlooking the Watersportbaan in Ghent.

Finish Tower, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: City of Ghent
Surface: 355 sqm
Status: Tender

FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Ewout De Bleser, Lucas van Remoortel, Marie Lafosse, Sarai Olabarrieta
Technical Consultants: HII0 Architecten en Ingenieurs bvba, DECLERCK & PARTNERS bvba
Images: FELT

Library Pavilion, Eke

2019-
Architecture, Residential, Private

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Library Pavilion, Eke

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.

Library Pavilion, Eke

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

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

A House With A Hat, Ghent

2020-2022
Architecture, Residential, Private

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A House With A Hat, Ghent

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.

A House With A Hat, Ghent

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

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Elisabeth Van Kerckhove
Consultant: Arthur De Roover, Vesting
Images: FELT

Midcentury Bungalow, Ghent

2020-
Architecture, Residential, Private

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Midcentury Bungalow, Ghent

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

Midcentury Bungalow, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Private
Surface: 275 sqm
Status: Execution

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Marie Lafosse, Sarai Olabarrieta Morales, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Robuust
Images: FELT

Art Center, Asse

2020-
Architecture, Cultural, Education, Public

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Art Center, Asse

FELT together with OSK-AR architecten won the competition for the new arts center in Asse.

Art Center, Asse

Location: BE, Asse
Client: City of Asse
Surface: 4773 sqm
Status: Tender

In collaboration with OSK-AR architecten

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Lucas van Remoortel, Sarai Olabarrieta, Ewout De Bleser
Consultants: Fraye & Parners, AA&O, Bureau De Fonseca, 2B-SAFE
Images: MakeMe, FELT

A Simple House, Antwerp

2017-2021
Architecture, Residential, Private

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A Simple House, Antwerp

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.

A Simple House, Antwerp

Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: AG Vespa
Surface: 110 sqm
Status: Built

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

Community Center Peterbos, Brussels

2020-
Architecture, Urbanism, Public, Sports & Recreation

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Community Center Peterbos, Brussels

FELT in collaboration with 2001 and atelier Horizon, won the invited competition for a new sport and recreation facility in Peterbos, a large-scale modernist social housing development in Brussels.
Using the height difference to our advantage we conceived the new building as a big circular plaza amidst the rigid blocks surrounding the site. The large volume of the sports hall is therefor recessed underground giving way to the plaza whilst still enabling the other functions to relate with the public realm on the lower street level. The facade is designed as a sequence of large windows opening up the inner workings towards the neighbourhood. This prolonged gallery concludes in a striking corner volume, containing the café and the large elevator and staircase that connects the plaza with the street and the sports infrastructure within.

Community Center Peterbos, Brussels

Location: BE, Peterbos
Client: Municipality of Anderlecht
Surface: 4245 sqm
Status: Building Permit

In collaboration with 2001, atelier horizon

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Elisabeth Van Kerckhove, Sarai Olabarrieta, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: UTIL, Boydens, Daidalos, Bureau Bouwtechniek
Images: FELT

Design Museum Ghent

2019, invited competition
Architecture, Cultural, Public

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Design Museum Ghent

FELT teamed up with Monadnock (Nl) and aNNo architecten to take on the challenge to design a new wing for the Design Museum in the historical city center of Ghent. The proposed idiosyncratic volume received praise for its landmark ambitions and the ingenuity it showed in handling the program.

Design Museum Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: City of Ghent
Status: Competition

In collaboration with aNNo architecten, Monadnock

FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Consultants: Eric Geens, Boydens, UTIL
Images: FELT, Monadnock, Ponnie

Elementary School, Ghent

2018-
Architecture, Education, Public

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Elementary School, Ghent

FELT & ROBUUST won the competition for a new kindergarten, sports hall and school extension in Ghent.

Elementary School, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Stad Gent
Surface: 2330 sqm
Status: Tender

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Judith De Pau, Michiel Hutsebaut, Elisabeth Van Kerckhove, Marie Lafosse, Lucas Van Remoortel
Consultants: ROBUUST, Erik Geens
Images: FELT

Hamer House, Ghent

2019-2022
Architecture, Residential, Private

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Hamer House, Ghent

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.

Hamer House, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Private
Surface: 345 sqm
Status: Built

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

Olijftakstraat, Antwerp

2017-2019
Architecture, Residential, Private

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Olijftakstraat, Antwerp

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.

Olijftakstraat, Antwerp

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

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

Bekaert site, Hemiksem

2022
Architecture, Urbanism, Public

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Bekaert site, Hemiksem

FELT together with hub and NU architectuuratelier were invited for the competition for a housing project in Hemiksem.

Bekaert site, Hemiksem

Location: BE, Hemiksem
Client: Park aan de Stroom II
Surface: 60 000 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with hub, NU architectuuratelier

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: OVERLANT landschapsarchitecten
Images: FELT, hub, NU architectuuratelier

Rose garden, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

2021
Architecture, Urbanism, Public, Cultural

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Rose garden, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

FELT together with Maat ontwerpers were invited for the competition for the new masterplan for a public rose garden in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw.

Rose garden, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

Location: BE, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
Client: Agentschap natuur en bos
Surface: 138971 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with: Maat ontwerpers

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Ewout De Bleser, Sarai Olabarrieta
Consultant: Erik Dhont Landscape Architects
Images: FELT

Neptunus, Ghent

2019
Architecture, Urbanism, Public, Sports & Recreation

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Neptunus, Ghent

FELT collaborated with MAAT Ontwerpers on a masterplan for the Neptunus-site near Ghent. The planned demolishment of the current open air swimming pool was a starting point to research the possibilities of the area. As a result of an intense co-creation process with multiple stakeholders, the new masterplan not only defines the new position of the swimming pool, but also leads to a more open site with strong green character and a rational and safe circulation plan.

Neptunus, Ghent

Location: BE, Wondelgem
Client: City of Ghent
Surface: 96 000 sqm
Status: Study

In collaboration with MAAT Ontwerpers

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Lucas Van Remoortel
Images: FELT

Care housing facility, Stekene

2021
Architecture, Health, Urbanism, Private

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Care housing facility, Stekene

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

Care housing facility, Stekene

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

In collaboration with Raamwerk

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

Entrance Pavilion, Gaasbeek

2016
Architecture, Cultural, Public

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Entrance Pavilion, Gaasbeek

For the new entrance pavilion for the estate of Gaasbeek we designed a small tower. It acts as a first architectural encounter in the sequence of ‘folies’ scattered throughout the parks and gardens surrounding the Castle. Standing along the road, it allows for easy recognition as a starting point for a visit to the domain.
The layout of the quirky building is highly rational: on ground level a large public hall is embedded in the greenery, stacked on top are the auxiliary functions. Its sober brick facade features large arched openings, providing impressive views on the surrounding landscape. The top floor is conceived as a public roof terrace, where visitors can scan the area - much like watchmen at the gate.

Entrance Pavilion, Gaasbeek

Location: BE, Gaasbeek
Client: Flemish government
Surface: 500 sqm
Result: Competition

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Samuele Xompero
Consultants: UTIL, HP engineers, Atelier Arne Deruyter, Daidalos
Images: Eva Le Roi & FELT

Puinhuis, Ghent

2012 - 2014
Architecture, Residential, Private

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Puinhuis, Ghent

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.

Puinhuis, Ghent

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

In collaboration with 360 architecten

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

Beach Pavilion, Nieuwpoort

2018
Architecture, Cultural, Hospitality, Urbanism, Public

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Beach Pavilion, Nieuwpoort

Together with White Arkitekter (SE) FELT finished first in the WinVorm competition for the new beach pavilion in Nieuwpoort (BE). The proposal was praised for its capacity to invigorating the public realm and the subtlety demonstrated by tuning in with the littoral landscape.

Beach Pavilion, Nieuwpoort

Location: BE, Nieuwpoort
Client: Nieuwpoort
Surface: 2030 sqm
Status: Competition

With: White Arkitekter

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Eric Geens, BAS
Images: FELT

Provinciaal Hof, Brugge

2018-
Architecture, Cultural, Hospitality, Heritage, Public

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Provinciaal Hof, Brugge

FELT won the WinVorm competition for the design of a new visitor center and event spaces within the Provinciaal Hof, a 19th century neo-gothic palace on Bruges' central market square. We proposed to rethink the ground-floor level as an extension of the public space and suggested the creation of kind of plaza in the middle of this neo-gothic decorum.
The aim was to improve the accessibility and offer more flexibility in the usage. To do so the non-authentic generic tiling is interchanged for a new terrazzo flooring, characterised by an oversized checkered pattern that extends all te way to the back, and thereby somehow settles with the original articulation of separate rooms in the creation of a larger 'forum'.

This forum is conceived as a 'plug-and-play' event space offering state of the art technical solutions integrated within the renewed floor. The raster of 2,5m*2,5m brass lines set out by the flooring pattern spans a field of nodes throughout the space. These nodes not only provide multiple network acces points, the also serve as docking points for a specific set of equipments, specifically designed for the forum to serve a diverse future programming.
This forum is adjoined by serving functions organised in the side wings. In the south wing a new elevator, subtly integrated within the original structure of the building, creates a new logistic connection. Highly improving the operations of personal and catering staff in the organisation of events within the authentic interiors on the higher floors. In the north wing a new stairway connects the forum with the new lavatories and cloakroom.

Provinciaal Hof, Brugge

Location: BE, Brugge
Client: Provincie West-Vlaanderen
Surface: 3800 sqm
Status: Execution

In collaboration with Architect Van Severen

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: aNNo architecten, Boydens engineering
Images: FELT

Coworking parc, Ghent

2019-
Architecture, Urbanism, Private, Heritage

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Coworking parc, Ghent

FELT designs a coworking parc in Ghent.

Coworking parc, Ghent

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

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

Loodsenstraat, Ghent

2017
Architecture, Residential, Public

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Loodsenstraat, Ghent

The brief for this social housing project called for 7 single 3-bedroom houses and 3 apartments. The plot is a long stretched strip in a street consisting of consecutive row houses with small north-oriented private backyards. Rather then persevering this existing typology we opted to turn things around. By creating an alternating rhythm of laterally organized houses and dual gardens we break up the continuous street facade. Bringing light into the street and giving the houses and gardens a more beneficial East-West orientation. This feature was reinforced furthermore by the gently rounded brick corners, creating the quaint figuration that is repeated in the corner building containing the apartments.

Loodsenstraat, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Woningent
Surface: 1200 sqm
Status: Competition

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Consultants: Tech 3, LIME
Images: FELT

Clubhouse, Molenbeek

2015 - 2018
Architecture, Public, sports-recreation, Education

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Clubhouse, Molenbeek

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.

Clubhouse, Molenbeek

Location: BE, Sint-Jans Molenbeek
Client: Chiro Jijippeke
Surface: 350 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens
Consultant: STIR engineers
Graphic design: Janine Kopatz
Images: FELT

Care Villa, Merksplas

2017-
Architecture, Health, Private

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Care Villa, Merksplas

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?

Care Villa, Merksplas

Location: BE, Merksplas
Client: Emmaus vzw
Surface: 850 sqm
Result: Execution

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Judith de Pau, Marie Lafosse, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultant: Robuust
Images: FELT

Care housing facility, Ostend

2018
Architecture, Health

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Care housing facility, Ostend

Together with 2001, FELT was invited for the Open Call competition to design a new building for people who need 24-hour support. In the first stage 20 rooms are to be built, and 20 more in a second stage.
Our design incorporates both stages in one large building, organizing the entire program on ground level for optimal accessibility and maximum flexibility. A gesture that might look rather bold from an areal perspective, but due to its low posture and the calm horizontality, proves to be rather modest from a human perspective. The distinctive dune landscape on the roof merges it in with surrounding greenery. While the large colorful roof lights provide for easy recognition for each individual dwelling.

Care housing facility, Ostend

Location: BE, Oostende
Client: vzw Duinhelm
Surface: 2200 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with 2001

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: BAS, HP engineers, CLUSTER
Images: FELT, 2001

Row House Reconversion, Gentbrugge

2014 - 2016
Architecture, Private, Residential

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Row House Reconversion, Gentbrugge

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.

Row House Reconversion, Gentbrugge

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

Kangaroo, Lubeek

2013 - 2015
Architecture, Residential, Private

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Kangaroo, Lubeek

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.

Kangaroo, Lubeek

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

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