The apartment was built in 1960 and was in the condition in which the very first owner ever bought it.
The original bathroom and kitchen had typical blue tiles that were never changed. In the rest of the apartment bright floral wallpaper was coated on the walls. An oak chevron parquet floor was laid in the living room.

An oversized hallway/corridor offered the opportunity to expand the living space to the widest extent. The walls between the living space and hallway, also the hallway between the kitchen were demolished. The concrete skeleton remains and forms a spatial boundary between the different rooms in the apartment. All the rooms are open and connected with each other.

All the interior furniture was designed so that the apartment and its materials form a whole project. In the apartment there is openness and light on one hand, and load-bearing walls as a place for storage and as a visual partition on the other hand.

Pictures by Inneke Gebruers