Delmulle Delmulle Architecten

Shutterflats Apartment Building

Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans

SHUTTERFLATS APARTMENT BUILDING

Delmulle Delmulle Architecten

CATEGORY
Apartments

LOCATION
Waregem, Belgium

AREA
850 m²

YEAR
2016

PHOTOGRAPHS
Johnny Umans

MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Chaos Group, Adobe, Trimble

ENGINEERING
UTIL Struktuurstudies

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Frank Delmulle, Seger Delmulle, Joachim Provoost

LANDSCAPE
Denis Dujardin

DESIGN TEAM
Seger Delmulle, Frank Delmulle

Text description provided by architect.

Sliding shutters, in vertically open wooden slatted work, provide intimacy, serve as sunscreens against overheating, as privacy screens at busy peak times and as a dynamic factor of the building. This creates a relationship with the city, coupled with an optimal utility value for the residents.

Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans

The facade is not static; it is constantly changing. It is partly determined by the residents, by the moment, by the seasons, day and night, so that life and building merge into one another.

The entrance at the back is part of the urban circuit. One enters on the side through a small street in a mysterious urban slit between the building and the neighbouring building.

Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans

Each apartment has an open plan dining and living space that opens onto the south terrace via a facade wide sash window. This south-facing glass façade provides an abundance of light and overlooks the new square with large hundred-year-old trees.

The compact and modest apartments have been carefully designed to get the most out of their surface area without compromising on spaciousness.

Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans

A central wooden volume in afromisia contains all the technical functions. The living and sleeping quarters are arranged around this central piece of furniture around which one can navigate freely.

Shutterflats is planned in such a way that all the apartments are south-facing and overlook a green inner courtyard formed between Shutterflats, the Avalon residence and a renovated historic villa from 1904.

During the renovation of the villa, the commitment was to preserve as many original elements of the villa as possible and to supplement them with new contemporary components.

The Shutterflats enter into a fascinating and intimate relationship with the historic villa and enters into a relationship with its environment of giving and taking, in a twilight zone between public domain and building.

Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans
Shutterflats Apartment Building
© Johnny Umans


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West facade
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Front facade
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Back facade
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Basement
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Ground floor

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Implantation

Delmulle Delmulle Architecten
T +32 55 302670 F +32 55 302672
Delmulle Delmulle Architecten
Kortrijkstraat 28,9790 Petegem a/d Schelde, Belgium