Belgian studio adn Architectures in collaboration with Olivier Dubucq Architecte, have renovated this old farmhouse in Walhain, Belgium.

Called House NSV, wonky beams and columns of the existing farmhouse are exposed throughout the interior space.

The textured exterior façade is punctuated with windows in varying sizes.

Photographs are by Filip Dujardin.

Here's some more information from the architects:

House “NSV"

The request of the client was the transformation of an old farmhouse composed of a main building and a cattle shed.

Following the first studies, the attention was focused on the main building, chosen by the client to install its house.

In a general way, the will was to the “patrimonial” setting ahead of the elements having a significant architectural value; the masonry or wooden structure of the roof for example.

This valorisation was supplemented by some specific contemporary interventions on the outside and by a deep refitting of the interior spaces.

The dwelling, very decayed, was consequently the object of a heavy restoration, only the basic structure (walls and roof structure) was being preserved.

A special attention was given to the structure: much reinforcement, out concrete, fastenings and ties, were necessary to maintain the existing structure.

On the outside, the “contemporary” interventions were established by successive keys while trying to find a dialogue between the old architecture and the new elements - forward setting of the entry by a natural concrete gantry just as bay of the stay towards the back garden, play of depth of the bays.

The external coating offers a texture that homogenizes the heteroclite masonry and accentuates the materiality, the plastic “sensuality” of the frontages.

An element made of birch is composed of various arrangements, the staircases, the cloakroom and the sanitary.

Men cross it; men borrow it, to reach the floors.

This architectural element shapes all over the width of the house, is turned over, gone up on the floors.

At the upper level, spaces let appear all their height under the roof, accentuating this, the bathrooms are volumes with flat roof on which is placed an indirect lighting.

Through various spaces of the dwelling, the three old wooden structures are magnified, crossing volumes, skirting walls, disappearing and appearing at other places, being based on a new structure.

A special attention was given to this old farm in order to meet the current energy standards and the comfort required for a family use in 2010 – roof, ground floor and walls insulation.

Radiant heating, solar panels for the hot water, re-use of the rainwater were included.

Program: Refurbishment of a XVIIIth century farmhouse

Client: Private
Location: Walhain, Belgium

Principal architects: adn architectures

Project team: David Henquinet, Nicolas Iacobellis, Didier Vander Heyden, Olivier Dubucq

Floor area: 270 m2

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Here's an extension to a family home in rural Belgium by Brussels studio adn Architectures.

Called House Satiya, the project features an inclined triangular skylight at one end of the pitched roof.

White-painted brickwork and a black tiled sloping roof were used to tie in with existing local buildings.

Photographs are by Filip Dujardin.

See also: Bastogne by adn Architectures (February 2010)

The following information is from the architects:

The client wished to transform and extend his house to be able to accommodate a large family.

The existing situation, a working house of the years '30 of 100 m ², consequently will become a resolutely contemporary house of 350 m ².

The first will is to include the extension in continuity with the neighbourhood (inclined roof, black tiles, white painted bricks, etc).

Secondly, the intention is to reflect on creative architecture, as well by its external/interior geometry, as by a more significant dimension (reflexion on textures of the external facing amongst other things).

The extension results in a principle of envelope recovering a volume in which the included spaces are conceived like functionalized boxes.

A play of full and vacuum is set up and expresses the will of close, direct, generous relations between the various levels.

The external openings meet the internal needs for the house, with the specific choices of sights on the external environment, like the run of the sun during the day.

The street front defines clearly the position of the entrance.

External and interior volume is a set of diagonals inducing a dynamics of space.

The choice of abstraction by the black & white is a desire to propose the conceptual aspect of the project while allowing architecture built to put itself “besides”, to allow the space to live as such.

House “Satiya”
Program: Extension of a small house
Client: Private

Location: Kraainem, Belgium
Principal architects: adn Architectures
Project team: David Henquinet, Nicolas Iacobellis, Didier Vander Heyden

Floor area: 350 m2
Start of planning: 2006
Completion: 01/2010
Photographs: Filip Dujardin

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adn architects of Belgium have completed the refurbishment of a house in La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, painting both the new plaster and original shale walls in white to exaggerate the different textures.

Called Bastogne, the house utilises large white curtains to separate rooms and features exposed black cables hanging from the ceiling.

The kitchen and bathroom contain black blinds and polished-concrete work surfaces.

Here is some more information from the architects:

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To achieve a tension and duality between the existing situation and the foreseen intervention, the atmosphere is deliberately oriented towards streamlining, with a work on raw materials and an abstraction of spaces through the colour white.

One of the envisioned goals of the design is to highlight the “materiality” of the two shale dividing walls, the fitting and lime mortar grouting of which attest the history of the building.

The appearance of shale, the building’s main raw material, is made abstract behind the white paint coating.

The intent is to emphasize the rough feel of the texture, as opposed to the smoothness of the plastering, the concrete and the floors.

Program: Refurbishment of a traditional house
Client: Private
Location: La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium
Principal architects: adn Architectures
Project team: David Henquinet, Nicolas Iacobellis, Didier Vander Heyden
Floor area: 140 m2
Start of planning: 2007
Completion: 12/2009
Cost: 100.000 €

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