比利时复古建筑翻新,演绎空间共鸣

Architects:Barbara Van Der Wee Architects, Bovenbouw

Area :719 m²

Year :2018

Photographs :Filip Dujardin

Manufacturers :  AkzoNobel, Bisazza, Hager, RZB, Bomarbre, Brachot Hermant, Trimetal, Wicanders, WinckelmansAkzoNobel

Structural Engineer :Planet Engineering

Technical Engineer : Abetec NV

Construction Costs : € 2.800.000

City : Antwerpen

Country : Belgium

We regard renovations as exercises in empathy. In the renovation of the eclectic buildings in the Leysstraat in Antwerp, we used a lot of empathy to give a nineteenth century building a second breath. Behind the flamboyant, eclectic façade, a whole series of uninteresting rooms were hidden. In the design we try to eliminate the schizophrenia between a masterly façade and a meager interior.

We adopt a formal strategy that, like the façade, is eclectic and accumulative. Room after room we define the potentials and the necessities associated with the refurbishment into apartments.

An essential spatial component are the breakthroughs. What were once 3 historic buildings, we now renovate up to 2 apartments per layer. We dramatize the breakthroughs through the party walls. Along the chimney, through the chimney or on the mantelpiece, there are perforations that create a new route and connect the room structure.

Double circulations, steps and deep perspectives contribute to the spaciousness of the circulation. Some openings are cut out of the corner.

Surprising moments are hidden in all corners of the building. A shower under a bas-relief, a hidden door to the elevator, a paravent contains a shower.

The materialization breathes an equal amount of empathy. Kitchens receive profiling or become aedicules. Arches and color accents contribute to the quality of each room. The attic has its own, unpolished atmosphere. Interventions have a coarser grain here.

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