Garden No. 2 – Limburg
GARDEN NO. 2 – LIMBURG
Camarim Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Camarim Arquitectos
LEAD ARCHITECT
Vasco Matias Correia, Patrícia Ferreira de Sousa
DESIGN TEAM
Vasco Matias Correia, Patrícia Ferreira De Sousa, Monica Dogliani, Inês Silva, Joana Vieira
PHOTOGRAPHS
Tim Van de Velde
AREA
327 m²
YEAR
2024
LOCATION
Genk, Belgium
CATEGORY
Residential Architecture
English description provided by the architects.
A house with a large garden and, in the background, a small cabin. Our clients asked us to redesign the cabin and add a swimming pool – a summer area in the garden.
The new cabin retains the footprint and general shape of the previous one – a rectangular plan covered by an open-gable roof – but the layout, design and materiality change substantially.
The rhododendron, almost right up against the cabin, is kept. The pool, longer than the cabin, is centred with a large terrace that frames cabin and rhododendron.
We decided from the outset that the pool should be clad in stone; or rather, that the pool, terrace and cabin, inside and out, should be marble, like the oldest baths we've seen in Rome and Istanbul, and we worked on these materials so as not to detract from the cabin's original grace.
The builder, sensibly, protested: he didn't think it was possible to transpose material and construction solutions from Portugal to Belgium.
With the help of the builder of 'Garden No. 1 – Delgada', we managed to convince him.
And since he is an excellent builder, he did nothing less than the best he could.
