Article source: MDMA

A house built in a landscape of rolling hills, south of Brussels. This landscape being open and rural has been well preserved over the centuries as a consequence of the medieval castle (of Gaasbeek) that overlooks it. In a wider range Pieter Brueghel the Elder, one of our most famous painters, helped to its preservation by eternalising it (see ‘the harvest’, Metropolitan Museum, NY, fig). One can actually take a tour and visit the sites behind the paintings.

Canopy house (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

• Architect: MDMA
• Name of Project: Canopy house
• Location: Pajottenland, Belgium
• Date: 2002-2009
• Photographs: Filip Dujardin

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