OV House, Bruges / Nicolas Schuybroek
OV House is located in the mountainside of Bruges, Belgium, and designed by Nicolas Schuybroek in collaboration with the owner Thomas Ostyn.
OV House is located in the mountainside of Bruges, Belgium, and designed by Nicolas Schuybroek in collaboration with the owner Thomas Ostyn.
The BOPORO house had to be a place to retreat and completely unwind. In that respect, the covered terrace with patio forms the heart of the house.
A good design, respecting logic of location and orientation, can even be very simple. This light-footed ville proves that such honest architecture without bells or whistles, can nevertheless result in beautiful projects.
When Toon and Ina bought a monumental building in the center of Ghent, they were faced with a complex renovation project. The assignment: to make one contemporary family home from two connected historic buildings.
House DeDe was a project for a private client who had intentionally bought a piece of land with limited building potential. They wanted to protect the existing nature on the land and enable the family’s children to feel a bond with it.
Situated among vast fields and quiet sheep herds in Belgium, a heritage structure has been restored into a newly opened B&B. ’ The Bunkers ’ as the property is aptly named, was originally built in concrete on the brink of 1st world war.
When Stijn and Annemie bought the listed school façade (anno 1908) with the vacant piece of land behind, they were already the fourth owners in a row. The other buyers hadn’t found a proper solution to build a contemporary house behind this facade.
The project brings together a walled courtyard and a swimming pool. The living area is a glass box contained within a concrete garden pavilion. By making the poolhouse entirely out of glass, with minimal framed windows, both inside and outside seems to disappear. Natural light is entering the pavilion by creating enclosed gardens.
A listed monument such as fortress Hazegras can carry several heritage values in its DNA. Just as the cords of the DNA-molecule can be considered as the spine holding all genetic data, Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects reads military, social, cultural, natural, infrastructural and technical information from the traces in and around farmhouse Burkeldijk.