House MA / WE-S architecten

House MA / WE-S architecten - Exterior Photography, Glass, Facade
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House MA / WE-S architecten - Exterior Photography, Glass, Facade
© Johnny Umans

Text description provided by the architects. The client wishes to build a dental practice and an apartment on a plot of barely 85m2. The plot opens up along two sides and has a magnificent view to a new marina to be developed along the channel of Ingelmunster at the back of the site. Stringent building codes dictate a maximum building envelope of 3 storeys.

House MA / WE-S architecten - Exterior Photography, Facade, Glass, Concrete, Brick
© Johnny Umans

The dental practice should focus on the marina, the apartment on the Waterstraat. A two-sided exposure for the dental practice on the one hand, and optimal daylight entering the apartment on the other hand, result in a solution that stacks both programs instead of separating them.

House MA / WE-S architecten - Interior Photography
© Johnny Umans
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House MA / WE-S architecten - Interior Photography, Glass
© Johnny Umans

The maximum building envelope is manipulated so to provide two south facing terraces for the apartment above. These manipulations make the building read as a combination of three geometric volumes, stacked gradually on top of each other.

House MA / WE-S architecten - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Johnny Umans

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Cite: "House MA / WE-S architecten" 14 Dec 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/953044/house-ma-we-s-architecten> ISSN 0719-8884

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