House VP-VA
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House VP-VA

GRAUX & BAEYENS architecten as Architects

This new city dwelling in a suburb of the middle-sized city Ghent has an enriching relationship with its surroundings. The generous front and rear façades enter into a dialogue with the street through the various outside areas, created by partly retracting the façade. This creates a fascinating game of positive and negative spaces.


Designed as a so-called ‘through-lit house’, the different living spaces are also vertically connected by voids and skylights. The vertical / stacked living is therefore experienced as spatially liberating.


The building volume responds to the possible but unlikely development of the nearby plot. The ‘waiting façade’ is provided with a materialization of slates that is extended across the roof volume. This creates an externally uniform appearance that integrates the waiting façade ad hoc within the urban context. Regardless of whether the neighbors will built against it at a later stage. In this way, the blind guard wall becomes an enrichment for the streets.


MOTIVATION

Originally the plot was part of a spacious garden of the adjacent house. With the idea of selling this house, the garden was split into two lots, each suitable for a future house.


The plot closest to the existing house is currently being used as a garden. However, this zone can also be further developed in the future.


During the design of the new terraced house, the possible permanent situation of this infill project was taken into account, with the waiting façade becoming part of the composition of the façade and thus creating a temporary facade, temporary or not.


Finally, the externalization of the interior in relation to the street scene determines the appearance of the street and guard gable.

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