Article source: BC Architects

A renovation extension of an existing farmhouse, with a new living and kitchen area.

Client Sander and Mieke want to build their home themselves with ecologic principles and a healthy and easy construction process. Sander, a forest manager, has thorough knowledge of wood. This made us choose wood as a principle building material for their home. A timber frame structure is isolated with recycled newsprint and finished with a planking of oak that Sander chose himself from within the forest.

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• Architects: BC Architects
• Project: Mieke & Sander’s house
• Location: Boutersem, Belgium
• Client: Mieke Michels & Sander Jansens
• Cooperation: Hanne Eckelmans
• Budget: 150.000 € excl. VAT
• Surface: 305 m2
• Concept: 2011
• Status: In construction