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Extension vB4

Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh

EXTENSION VB4

Dmva

CATEGORY
Houses, Extension

LOCATION
Brecht, Belgium

ARCHITECTS
Dmva

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Rini Van Beek

DESIGN TEAM
David Driesen, Tom Verschueren

AREA
80

YEAR
2011

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mick Couwenbergh

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Eddy Leys, Rudy Meyvis, Boomse Glashandel

CONSTRUCTIONAL ENGINEER
ASB

A few years ago dmvA was requested to design an extension to an A-framed house in order to reconvert this holiday home into a comfortable, contemporary house.

Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh
Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh

This house is situated in a former recreation area and although municipality transformed this area into one with full residential use, one has to deal with specific building regulations.

First dmvA designed an organic lobate extension, consisting of three parts, winding between the fir-trees.

Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh
Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh

Although nature was highly respected, this design did not meet the demands of building authorities and was therefore rejected.

This led to the design and construction of the well-known, mobile BlobvB3.

The search for a design which fitted in with building regulations and also strong enough to touch the pyramid form, resulted in a floating volume, a 'tunnel' built with trapezoidal wooden constructions.

Like the A-framed house, built with structural frame of studs, this new timber part followed the same structure.

Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh
Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh
Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh

These two frames next to each other connect the old and the new part and create the basis for the dimensions of the library, the new bathroom and entrance.

The back and the frontside of the new building volume are fully glazed, allowing full view on the garden and pond.

Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh
Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh
Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh

Views from streetside are interrupted by a movable partition wall .

The architectural concept is based on a dialogue between old and new, cosiness and openness, glass and wood and linked by materiality and details.

Extension vB4
© Mick Couwenbergh


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Ground Floor Plan
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Site Plan

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