Technical sheet
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- Gent
- Date
- 2019 - 2022
- Client
- Private
- Executor
- Pigment (interior and finition), Elias Techniek (heating), Debie (electricity), Durmiline (concrete floors)
- Status
- Executed
- Photos
- Katoo Peeters
Situaties III (a house filled)
Interior of a mansion where every room has its own different reason to exist
Daily life in a house creates various situations. This house is a middle class house and a middle class house is by nature a house of rooms. Stacked rooms, stacked situations. Situations not limited by the walls of rooms. Situations are not always under control. They don’t have to be. Situations can be accommodated by rooms. So, a house filled with situations.
Entrance hall
The staircase descending to the basement, offers a buffer to the landing. A cloakroom closet is deep, deeper than you would expect. So deep a door can disappear inside, and it does. So deep you can sit inside to tie your shoe laces and to still have room behind your back for your coat.
Kitchen
A long block with a peninsula as a lookout, a bar. The kitchen is massive below the mezzanine, but dispersed and illuminated in the double high space. Noble dark wood, with solid wooden vertical slats. The slats align the furniture and serve as a grip. Sometimes. There’s no space for an island. Not a fixed one anyway. There’s a rolling one, ready to dock where it’s wanted, even on the terrace outside.
Terrace
The terrace is half a circle. The greenery comes close to the windows on the side, but there’s still a terrace where you need it.
Balustrade
The mezzanine has a balustrade, but one that likes to exaggerate and that’s also there where it’s not really needed. The balustrade behaves as a continuous strip, whether there’s a wall behind or not. A double rhythm of wooden slats with acoustic insulation and a black canvas/cloth. A reversed guitar, not a sound box but a mute box.
Reading space
A big cupboard, a comfy chair and desk. The desk is a black slab attached to the balustrade. There’s a hole for your cables.
Space to look around
Mouldings on the ceiling and on old panel doors. The black marble hearth is saved and complemented with dark green paint and a thin black cupboard. Open shelves offer a lot of storage space without stifling the hearth. Two boxes for extra guests to sit on or to store away some stuff. You can sit in the window opening on top of the big radiator box, looking from your screen to the street and back.
Bathroom
A big wall with two stony grottos. There’s something to do in the grottos, a toilet and a shower, but the rock wall also has a purpose: the techniques, wires, tubes and water pipes hide behind it. A bath in front of the window or a window in front of the bath, depending on who is watching. A view is included. The cupboards are shoved over, like a block.
Bedroom
The bedroom radiates calm. The dressing winks to the kitchen, with its steady rhythm. Soft colors interfere with the hustle and bustle of the street. The bay window offers a view outside, looking unsuspecting passers-by.
Trairs and attic
The existing staircase arrives very close to the roof upstairs. Instead of expanding the roof like a dormer we do the opposite. We make a new, more compact, staircase. It curls before your head hits the roof. By accident, a space emerges and consequently a double high space. Where it used to be too low, it’s very high now.
