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Architects: NOTAN OFFICE
- Area: 275 m²
- Year: 2020
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Photographs:NICOLAS DELAROCHE
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Lead Architects: NOTAN OFFICE
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Text description provided by the architects. Urban transition and new orientations. The project adds two floors on an existing volume and reorganize entirely the plan with a creation of a patio, transforming an urban house into a two apartment construction, a duplex on the two first floors and a triplex above it.
![Carmelites Extension / NOTAN OFFICE - Interior Photography, Dining room, Wood](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5eb9/fd90/b357/658d/9400/02ac/medium_jpg/NOTAN_OFFICE_-_CARMELITES_BXL_-_2020_©_Archives_Modernes_DLR_-_8_(1).jpg?1589247321)
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Situated between a high and a low building, the project become an opportunity to link the two different scales of the street. The roof extension becomes a way to finish the street with creations of terraces and new orientations instead of a blind wall.
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The transition between the different heights of the neighboring constructions is progressive.
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