A2o

The 20th-century belt outside the historic centre of Hasselt has been thoroughly transformed in recent years. Small, mostly run-down working-class and middle-class houses, on narrow plots and with limited heights, are making way for larger, collective housing projects. The increasingly strict energy performance and comfort requirements, the development towards smaller average household composition and, above all, the need for densification of the city centre, mean that in many places - like here at Maastrichersteenweg - the typology of the single-family detached house is no longer tenable. With the disappearance of such terraced houses, the small scale and charm that is so characteristic of the buildings along the main access roads between... More