Villa Sept Petites

Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez

VILLA SEPT PETITES

Goffart-Polomé Architectes

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Brice Polomé, Damien Goffart

CONTRACTOR
Construct TIM

DESIGN, BUILDING PERMIT
Marie Maerckx

BUILDING SITE
Damien Goffart

STRUCTURE ENGINEER
Bureau Delvaux

PHOTOGRAPHS
Antoine Richez

AREA
400 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Ham-Sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Belgium

CATEGORY
Houses, Restoration

Text description provided by architect.

Started as the restoration of an old villa, the project aims to enhance the quality of the ground floor by reconnecting it to the garden.

Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez

The major intervention focuses on the creation of a new plinth to magnify the presence of the villa in the middle of the garden meanwhile the bel-etage, the previous living room, is converted into a parental suite.

Taking advantage of the existing semi-buried cellar, its reconversion is intended to reconnect living spaces to the garden.

In that respect, the new entrance takes advantage of the existing garage door in order to clarify the transition from the street to the house.

Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez

In addition, the whole entrance sequence was revised which offered a new floor to the house.

This inhabited plinth houses new functions linked to the family life which are now oriented towards the garden.

Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez

Although the ground floor is semi-buried, a patio was designed to bring natural light in the very heart of the project.

Anchored on the plinth, the bel-etage is converted into a parental suite meanwhile upper floors host other bedrooms.

The chosen position to deal with this intervention voluntarily plays with contrasts between old and new, redefining the concept of room into ambiguous living spaces.

Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez

This specific contrast, together with the articulation between these two temporalities define the singularity of this project.

Indeed, the articulation between old and new takes shape in the composition of the staircase when the roughness of the concrete meets the delicacy of the wood.

Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez
Villa Sept Petites
© Antoine Richez


Villa Sept Petites
Section 01
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Section 02


Villa Sept Petites
1st floor plan
Villa Sept Petites
Ground floor plan
Villa Sept Petites
Implantation