Article source: AND’ROL architecture

DESCRIPTION by the architects

The plot’s particularities are on the one hand its perturbing position close to a steep rock slope, and on the other hand its small depth and its unusual longitudinal orientation parallel to the street.

Starting point for the young Belgian architects were traces of a nearby former stronghold. The main design element consists of an enclosing wall with a recessed rising part, to which the modest and sober main house nestles and adapts. A second shallow volume that houses a large number of storage spaces is also located behind the wall.

Image Courtesy © Georg Schmidthals

• Architects: AND’ROL architecture
• Project: WALL HOUSE
• Location: Near Brussels, Belgium
• Photography: Georg Schmidthals
• Type: Single Family
• Client: Private
• Habitable surface: 138m2
• Completion: July 2013
• Energy: low energy standard
• Flooring: Sleek concrete screed
• Stairs: beech wood
• Lighting: Foscarini, Modular, Philips