The problem with the mid-century split-level home in Hoeilaart, Belgium, wasn’t that it had been neglected over time. The problem was that it had been subjected to too quite a bit consideration—all ill-conceived interventions that turned the once-elegant and straightforward building, designed by architect Y. Loze and in-built 1962, proper right into a Frankenstein.
“The place was messy, with loads of parasitic components resembling low-cost verandas, added partitions, separations, concrete slab,” says Sébastien Dachy, cofounder of Brussels-based architectural studio Mamout. (For proof, scroll to the tip for the horrifying “sooner than” shot.) Working in collaboration with architect Stéphanie Willocx, he and his group cleaned up the extraneous and the heinous, returning the home to its minimalist roots and persevering with the dialog between the indoors and outdoors.
The model new owners, a put together dinner and a seamstress, had one different request, too: a second mattress room. The house was designed as a one-bedroom, nonetheless with two children, the couple needed not lower than but yet another. Fairly than compromising the distinctive design and together with an extension, the group decided to remodel an underused underground storage into a giant shared children’ mattress room and create a model new “stair tunnel” that connects it to the first residence above.
Be a part of us as Sébastien walks us through the fragile restoration.
Photos by Séverin Malaud, courtesy of Mamout.
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