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Village and small-town residential landscapes

We focus on social cohesion and the rural environment, with attention to the landscape, small-scale urbanity, village character, architectural aspects or sometimes simply the story behind them. We choose socially relevant themes such as care and connection, collective housing and sheltered and quiet places...

Office + house VE

Office + house VE

The former headmaster’s house of the old municipal school in Steenhuize was converted into a childcare facility during the 1990s. The site is part of a protected village view. No historical heritage...

Collective housing 'Truweel'

Collective housing 'Truweel'

This project is a response to decades of scattered building and subdivision. The residential courtyard involves the transformation of the former dancing venue “Truweel” in Sint-Lievens-Esse. The sit...

Villa Rocco

Villa Rocco

Strengthening the village character by integrating village functions while maintaining scale. A distinctive post-war villa with neo-Gothic influences stands at a roundabout and forms the gateway to t...

Robust living

Robust living

A villa with a large garden and a semi-detached house are being transformed into a residential cluster of seven diverse housing units, two shared spaces, and a combination of private and communal gar...

Vicinus

Vicinus

A study was conducted to explore maximum residential densification on a former school site, with the context serving as a key factor in the configuration. The design is based on the concept of the ca...

House BdR

House BdR

Multihousing Rozebeke

Multihousing Rozebeke

The village landscape of Rozebeke, with its Romanesque church, is protected and has in recent years become a quiet village with many vacant buildings around the church. The protected status has kept...

Appartment K

Appartment K

THE SEA It is attainable for all Belgians For every Belgian, a little box with a view of the sea Our coast is monotonous, solid and strong Straightforward and rough like our sea, and therefore beauti...

Social housing - 10 units

Social housing - 10 units

The housing cluster is located in the village center of Hillegem, next to a primary school and across from the listed rectory. The surrounding buildings form a ribbon of detached, semi-detached, and...

Multihousing Mill hill

Multihousing Mill hill

Ten spacious housing units are connected in various ways around a central courtyard. The archetype of an ancient Flemish farmhouse serves as the inspiration for the colors and design. One wing along...

Living apart together VDS

Living apart together VDS

Two houses, for the parents and their daughter respectively, are arranged around a central patio, forming a creative exercise within a traditional building envelope. The two dwellings are visually un...

Group housing VDW

Group housing VDW

Not demolishing impulsively is also a strategy for village-scale architecture and qualitative densification. An existing house with a party wall was expanded with additional residential units. The or...

House DD

House DD

When the clients’ grandmother visited for the first time, she said with genuine conviction: “But that’s beautiful!” The most meaningful compliment an architect can receive, and at the same time: “Mis...

House SDS

House SDS