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Renovations, extensions and a few new houses in Flanders, since 2019. In red: what is on site now.

White site model on a basswood board: a plot with contour layers, trees as spheres on sticks and a house of two volumes under a flat roof
Illustration: a white model, lifted apart floor by floor.
Type

13 projects

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Projects in Flanders
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0 — 50 km
  • Completed
  • Brief or permit
  • On site

037 · Renovation · 2024

Barn

Kruisem, Zingem 240 m² gross

A farm barn in the Scheldt valley is being joined to the farmhouse. The change of use needed advice from the Flemish agriculture administration; the roof timbers stay.

Timeline

34 months planned

  1. BriefSurvey, conversations, sketches

    4 mo

  2. PermitApplication, submission, the council's questions

    13 mo

  3. Build · nowConstruction drawings, tender, building

    16 mo

  4. Handover · plannedProvisional handover and snag list

    1 mo

Example project of a fictional practice. Durations in months, rounded.

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031 · Completed 2024

Terraced house and garden room, Ghent

Street front in white-painted brick with a pitched gable and dark windows, under a grey sky
01Street front, limewashed. Windows and roof kept.
Garden side: old brick beside a new volume in pale stone with large black-framed windows
02Garden side: the new volume beside the old brick.
Place
Ghent, Brugse Poort
Brief
Renovation and rear extension
Existing
Terraced house, 1910
Plot
5.40 × 31.00 m
Area
168 m² gross
Duration
22 months

The house was narrow and dark in the middle. The stair ran across it and cut the ground floor in two. We moved it to the party wall, so the living space now runs in one piece from the street to the garden.

At the back, a low extension holds the kitchen, with a rooflight across the full width. The street front stayed as it was, apart from a new coat of limewash. The city asked for one change: the extension's roof edge 30 cm lower on the neighbours' side.

Kitchen in the new rear extension, with a rooflight, an oak worktop and a glazed wall onto the garden
03Kitchen under the rooflight, oak worktop.

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StreetBBLivingStairDiningKitchenYardGarden5,4010,505,008,50N
Project
031 Terraced house, Ghent
Sheet
A-101 Ground floor plan
Scale
1:100
Date
14.11.2022
Drawn
AS
A steel handrail running at an angle along an inside brick wall
04The stair along the party wall, steel handrail.
Detail of a facade in which every other brick steps forward by half a brick
05Sample panel for the bond of the garden wall.

Timeline

22 months from first meeting to handover

  1. BriefSurvey, conversations, sketches

    3 moMar 2022

  2. PermitApplication, submission, the council's questions

    6 moJun 2022

  3. BuildConstruction drawings, tender, building

    11 moDec 2022

  4. HandoverProvisional handover and snag list

    2 moNov 2023

037 · On site

Barn, Kruisem

The barn as we found it: brick walls, corrugated sheets on the roof, a collapsed lean-to and a stack of roof tiles
01Outside, as found. The corrugated sheets have been replaced with tiles.
A dark loft with timber beams and a round window in the brick gable wall
02The loft and its round window, kept.
A timber post on the dusty loft floor, with brick walls behind
03A post of the roof structure, kept.

A farm barn in Zingem, with an oak roof structure still in good order. The barn is being joined to the existing farmhouse, for a larger living room and two bedrooms. The council granted the permit after advice from the Flemish agriculture administration. The roof covering has been replaced; the timbers stayed where they were and now sit inside, above the living space. The photos show the barn as we found it.

The interior finishes are under way. Handover is planned for December.

Timeline

34 months planned

  1. BriefSurvey, conversations, sketches

    4 moFeb 2024

  2. PermitApplication, submission, the council's questions

    13 moJun 2024

  3. Build · nowConstruction drawings, tender, building

    16 moJul 2025

  4. Handover · plannedProvisional handover and snag list

    1 moNov 2026

The studio

Two architects and a draughtswoman, on the first floor of a house in Ghent. We take on a limited number of projects a year, so the same people follow a project from the first meeting to handover.

A white model of a small pavilion on a plinth
Study model, card, 1:100

  1. Measure first

    We measure the house ourselves and look up the old plans in the city archive. That way we know what is there before we draw anything.

  2. Drawing to scale

    Sketches are made in plan and section, often with a card model beside them. That way you can judge the space before anything is built.

  3. The permit

    We put the application together, submit it through the Omgevingsloket and answer the council's questions.

  4. On site

    We ask three contractors for prices, visit the site every week and draw up the snag list at handover.

Practical

Registration
Order of Architects, East Flanders
Insurance
Professional liability, including the ten-year liability
Fees
Example: 9 to 12 % of the building cost excl. VAT for a renovation; a fixed fee for small jobs
Working with
EPB assessor, structural engineer and safety coordinator, independent of us
First meeting
At the studio or at your home, free of charge

Example prices of a fictional practice.

Drawings

Three sheets from the set for project 031. This is how a contractor sees the house before pricing it.

  • +0,00+3,00+3,72+6,005,00
    Project
    031 Terraced house, Ghent
    Sheet
    A-301 Section B-B
    Scale
    1:100
    Date
    14.11.2022
    Drawn
    AS
    Extension with rooflight against the existing back wall.
  • 5,40
    Project
    031 Terraced house, Ghent
    Sheet
    A-201 Street elevation
    Scale
    1:100
    Date
    14.11.2022
    Drawn
    AS
    Existing kept, windows repaired, limewash.
  • 91214facing brick 9PIR 12block 14steel angle 100×100×8double glazingBelgian bluestone sill
    Project
    031 Terraced house, Ghent
    Sheet
    A-501 Detail D1
    Scale
    1:5
    Date
    14.11.2022
    Drawn
    AS
    Window to cavity wall junction, garden side.

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