Belgium
AABE
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
Belgium Architects firm
Atelier D’Architecture Bruno Erpicum & Partners (AABE) has completed the Genets 3 house project in 2006.
This 10,000 square foot two story residence offers high ceilings, four bedrooms, a complementary mezzanine office and an outside
swimming pool.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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This house is limited to a single level, it is weightless on the water area that separates it from the entrance avenue. To the left, the entrance shows its gallery wall. Descend a level, the construction frames the view over the fields, the countryside is yours. To the left, behind you, a series of levels interrupted by stairs that stretch outside bring the profile of the site together.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
To the right, beyond the overhanging part that covers the dining room, the kitchen benefits from a lateral patio that bathes in the morning sun. Go down further, the garden continues right up to the old trees in front of a swimming pool that is so long that it takes the liberty to fold back into the building through the
fault-line freed up under the built-up framework. It is all arranged for one to feel good: exercise, relaxation, cinema room,
ecological living room with a direct view over the beautiful cars. Here, the heart is in the bowels of the earth.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
Four bedrooms complemented with an office on the mezzanine are arranged at the +1 level, the apartment of the owners is organized higher up on the roof, in a vast room devoid of partitions to make the bedroom into a covered terrace when the weather is good. Here, the heart is in the stars.”
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Jo Pauwels |
The people
Architects: AABE
Location: Belgium
Client: Private
Photographs: Umberto Agnello
