Low Price Private House in Tienen, Belgium by AST 77 Architecten

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This compact house in a quiet neighborhood in Tienen . Proposed by the architects vision has led to a remarkable architectural appearance that attracts attention in the street but whose shape remains very simply.

Thanks to the total housing concept one could offer an answer to the limited budget and the not so favorable orientation of the land. To exploit the southwestern orientation to the street as possible, the architects swapped the “front and back “. That way they have a terrace and a garden , not to the rear of the house , but on the street laid out so that the living areas could be targeted. To the southwest in this logic to the traditional location of the areas to rotate, the front door to the back of the housing is provided.

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• Architects: AST 77 Architecten
• Project: Low Price Private House
• Location: Tienen, Belgium
• Photography: Steven Massart
• Name client: Heps – Mill
• Construction Year: 2009 – 2014
• Surface area: 412 m²
• Built area: 80 m²
• Living surface: 130 m²
• Energy level: E 75
• Building cost: 1.200 €/m²
• Phase: Built
• Name engineer: arch.- ing. Peter Van Impe, arch. Bart Gullentops
• Name safety coordinator: 2B-Safe
• Name energy consultant: 2B-Safe
• Name contractors: Carl Deckers

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The open staircase in the entrance one can go to the lower living spaces or to the bedrooms located on the first floor. The living areas are located half a level below the street level , so the relationship with the outside world is changing and the living rooms have plenty of privacy . The privacy of the home will be protected by a beech hedge all around the garden.

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The contrast in the material between the lower level and the floor reflects the very different relationships with the ‘outside world’. While one can look from the living room through wide windows directly outside the rooms on the 1st floor more inward. Therefore, with the exception of the glass opening in the rear, the whole floor is surrounded by a “shell” of bricks.

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For the masonry, the choice fell on an extruded stone, normally used for acoustic noise walls along the highways. The shelf has become the viewing area, allowing the hue better suited to the surrounding houses from the fifties. Because of this tilt and stacked masonry respect the view of the house gives a first glance at something or some strange image.

From the rooms, which were designed as single bedrooms, the windows can be opened with a view of the back of the facing stone wall, whose perforated bricks to the outside light soft ‘ hint ‘ as through a veil.

Image Courtesy © Steven Massart

Image Courtesy © Steven Massart

Image Courtesy © Steven Massart

Image Courtesy © Steven Massart

Image Courtesy © Steven Massart

Image Courtesy © Steven Massart

Image Courtesy © AST 77 Architecten

Image Courtesy © AST 77 Architecten

Image Courtesy © AST 77 Architecten

Image Courtesy © AST 77 Architecten

Image Courtesy © AST 77 Architecten

Image Courtesy © AST 77 Architecten

Tags: Belgium, Tienen

Category: House

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