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House Satiya by ADN Architectures
Here's an extension to a family home in rural Belgium by Brussels studio ADN Architectures.
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Called House Satiya, the project features an inclined triangular skylight at one end of the pitched roof.
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White-painted brickwork and a black tiled sloping roof were used to tie in with existing local buildings.
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Photographs are by Filip Dujardin.
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See also: Bastogne by ADN Architectures (February 2010)
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The following information is from the architects:
The client wished to transform and extend his house to be able to accommodate a large family.
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The existing situation, a working house of the years '30 of 100 m ², consequently will become a resolutely contemporary house of 350 m ².
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The first will is to include the extension in continuity with the neighbourhood (inclined roof, black tiles, white painted bricks, etc).
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Secondly, the intention is to reflect on creative architecture, as well by its external/interior geometry, as by a more significant dimension (reflexion on textures of the external facing amongst other things).
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The extension results in a principle of envelope recovering a volume in which the included spaces are conceived like functionalized boxes.
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A play of full and vacuum is set up and expresses the will of close, direct, generous relations between the various levels.
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The external openings meet the internal needs for the house, with the specific choices of sights on the external environment, like the run of the sun during the day.
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The street front defines clearly the position of the entrance.
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External and interior volume is a set of diagonals inducing a dynamics of space.
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The choice of abstraction by the black & white is a desire to propose the conceptual aspect of the project while allowing architecture built to put itself “besides”, to allow the space to live as such.
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House “Satiya”
Program: Extension of a small house
Client: Private
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Location: Kraainem, Belgium
Principal architects: adn Architectures
Project team: David Henquinet, Nicolas Iacobellis, Didier Vander Heyden
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Floor area: 350 m2
Start of planning: 2006
Completion: 01/2010
Photographs: Filip Dujardin
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