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Room In The City

Room In The City
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ROOM IN THE CITY

51N4E

ARCHITECTS
51N4E

DESIGN TEAM
Jan Haerens, Charlotte Schmidt, Jolein Bergers

EPB
Vec

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
UTIL Struktuurstudies, Frans Leenaerts

PARTNERS IN CHARGE
Johan Anrys, Freek Persyn

GARDEN DESING
Plant- en Houtgoed

PHOTOGRAPHS
Maxime Delvaux

AREA
300 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Leuven, Belgium

CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation

Text description provided by architect.

The client, a family of 5, lives in an archetypical row house on a dense plot in the historic centre of Leuven.

Room In The City
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Room In The City
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The home is transformed into a collection of connected spaces with very diverse characters: a very big, high, and bright space with zenithal light becomes the centre of the project.

A small adjoining brick shed is reached through a secret staircase. The street-side room serves as a vestibule, a reception space plus a storage room.

Room In The City
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Room In The City
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The garden becomes an open-air room with green walls and an oversized water element.

The rooms are defined through a careful formulation of building elements: a floating glass roof, a thin concrete staircase, a terrazzo floor slab, a green earth wall, a large sliding window.

This collection of rooms becomes an ambivalent living environment in the continuum of public and private rooms that compose the city fabric.

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