House L&D
HOUSE L&D
ALT Architectuur
MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Duravit, Niko, Wienerberger, Zangra, Steenbakkerijen van Membruggen, The Home Project, Zucchetti Kos
TECHNIQUES
Frederik Christiaens
CONSTRUCTION
Studiebureau Riessauw bvba
LOCATION
Gent, Belgium
CATEGORY
Houses, Houses Interiors, Sustainability
Text description provided by architect.
A house for family and architectural firm connects to the open landscape behind it. This is done by playing with roof slopes, the view from the house on that landscape and the choice of materials.
The children's rooms are situated under the steep roof slope at the front. This gives each room its own gabled roof.
The roof slopes become softer in the direction of the landscape. Three windows overlook the landscape and frame the view.
The whole creates some strong forms that refer to local rural building typologies.
The square floor plan incl udes a series of windows that look out onto the garden and the landscape from different points of view.
The materials used are highly tactile and expressive. The outside resembles a mass of baked clay (a local raw field oven stone, a jagged tile pan), the inside is warm and soft due to the use of walnut and a fine terrazzo.
With this, Thierry Lagrange (ALT architecture) is building his own house for the second time, after having already done so in Sint-Amandsberg. The garden respects the principles of permaculture.
