One of the crucial houses designed by Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens in 1972 (completed in 1974). It was built for Albert Van Wassenhove, a teacher and a bachelor with a highly developed interest in art and culture. This house of cast concrete, wood and glass, is situated in a middle-class residential area, near the city of Ghent. Conceived as a home for one person, it is the archetype of the..
Il progetto raddoppia la superficie di un fabbricato preesistente, di costruzione non ultimata. La situazione contestuale è sicuramente tra le più felici: la casa, sul crinale della collina prevalentemente coltivata a vigneti, resta permeabile alla vista a trecentosessanta gradi godendo di ottimi affacci; il progetto raccoglie vecchi e nuovi volumi in una scatola più grande, vetrata, e poi scomp..
Wiggly house is a single-family residential building located in a difficult context 50km away from Milan in Italy, characterized by multi-storey buildings that surround it.Because of this promiscuity, the house tries to protect itself reducing the openings toward the outside as much as possible, compensating with big or smaller patios, both closed and open, that give light to the inner spaces in..