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House MA

House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans

House MA

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AREA
285 M²

YEAR
2019

PHOTOGRAPHS
Johnny Umans

CLIENT
Anke Deschamp

PROGRAM
Dental Practice And Apartment

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Dental Clinic, House

LOCATION
Ingelmunster, Belgium

House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans

Text description provided by architect.

The client wishes to build a dental practice and an apartment on a plot of barely 85m2.

House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans

The plot opens up along two sides and has a magnificent view to a new marina to be developed along the channel of Ingelmunster at the back of the site. Stringent building codes dictate a maximum building envelope of 3 storeys.

The dental practice should focus on the marina, the apartment on the Waterstraat.

A two-sided exposure for the dental practice on the one hand, and optimal daylight entering the apartment on the other hand, result in a solution that stacks both programs instead of separating them.

House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans

The maximum building envelope is manipulated so to provide two south facing terraces for the apartment above.

These manipulations make the building read as a combination of three geometric volumes, stacked gradually on top of each other.

House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans
House MA
© Johnny Umans


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Plan - Ground floor
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Plan - 1st floor
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Plan - 2nd floor
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Plan - 3rd floor


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Frontal facade
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Rear facade


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