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Amidst a block of more traditional houses in Bilzen, -based Bassam El-Okeily, in collaboration with Karla Menten, has squeezed a contemporary three storey residence.  From the street, the project’s vastly unique façade screams for attention, yet the crazed internal geometry is contained by a flat piece of glass – a move that allows the project to assimilate better into its context. In the evening time, the façade is lit in different colors allowing the house to act as “a pubic light sculpture by night.”

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