137.WAV

Title House SG
Status under construction
Program house
Area 250 m2
Duration 2014 - 2017
Location Wavre, Belgium
Coordinates 50°42'29.07"N 4°35'16.00"E
Owner
Budget 349.000€ HTVA

The command concerns a single family house in the banal landscape of a new subdivision located in the region of Wavre, Belgium. The site's specificity is  the important difference between the top and the bottom of the land. Plus, the south was facing the street and the client wished to enjoy a garden and a sunny pool area protected against unwanted gazes. The subdivision by-law imposed a garage directly on the street and set a level for the door threshold of the house. This level was awkwardly low regarding the natural topography of the land. So the house has to be partially buried. Those regulations generated the idea of ​​design the project like a tablecloth which climbs from the street, up to the level of the entrance and then to the solarium and the swimming pool. For the garage. Rather than creating a new volume added to the front part of the land with a double roof slope. We chose to make the ground layer arise, creating a volume of garage naturally incorporated to the slope with a green roof. The house itself is a brick volume designed with a random laying plan. The color of the roof tiles, which reproduces exactly the tone of the bricks, gives a monolith effect. This effect is reinforced by the treatment of the perforations, which are deliberately exacerbated by the embedding in the interior of the house.