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House DD / Wim Heylen Architect

Hadir Al Koshta — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:55:00 +0000

The owners of this newly built home asked us to design a layout that combines living and working while being experienced as a cohesive whole. They specifically requested a design that offers flexibility to accommodate future family expansion and lifelong living. Therefore, we explored various layouts early in the design process. Certain rooms were given a flexible function, allowing them to change use depending on how they connect with adjacent spaces.

House SC / Wim Heylen Architect

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Reimagining a Semi-Detached House: A Three-Step Transition - Starting this architectural project, our primary aim was to breathe fresh life into a semi-detached house. Our vision was to accomplish this transformation with minimal intervention, preserving the house's original volumes, including the outbuilding. Initiating our design process, we placed our primary emphasis on the heart of the home —the kitchen—where updates were imperative to align it with contemporary living. The existing, outdated, and confined kitchen annex necessitated replacement.

House MV / Wim Heylen Architect

Luciana Pejić — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0000

The project concerns a bungalow from the 1950s located on a spacious plot with a green character. In the 00s, the house was extended at the rear facade with a ground floor volume in dark gray brick. The main volume also received a new cladding in white plaster with gray aluminum window frames. The characteristic canopy around the gently sloping roof was retained as a visible reminder of the original post-war villa that was concealed in the stucco. A house with two faces was formed: a white abstraction of the past on the front facade stands in stark contrast with the dark stone no-nonsense architecture on the rear facade.

The Comeback of Retro Design Trends in Modern Bathrooms

Valeria Montjoy — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:30:00 +0000

Even though white minimalism remains the norm, retro trends are making a serious comeback in modern bathroom designs, with homeowners incorporating pops of color, classic fixtures, and patterned surfaces. Despite often being static and traditional spaces in homes, bathrooms have certainly undergone significant transformations throughout the years. While those of the outspoken 1970s brought vibrant colors like avocado green and mustard yellow, the ‘80s introduced ceramic tiles in more muted, pastel shades. On the other hand, this century has set the ideal on white and marbled surfaces, slick gloss finishes, and silver fixtures. However, even as this all-white look continues to be the protagonist, bold retro enhancements are reviving and blending in with contemporary elements to create elegant, yet lively atmospheres with a strong character.

House AC / Wim Heylen + Pieter Coelis

Valeria Silva — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:00:00 +0000

The 19th century mansion is located at a busy junction on the ringway of Ghent. On the street side, the house has a wide façade of three storeys high topped with a saddle roof. On the first floor, a curved bay window offers an unobstructed view over the water. On the garden side, the main volume connects with a stately high extension. This houses the original wooden staircase that gracefully leads to the first floor. In the course of time, various extensions of visibly inferior quality were built around this stairwell.

House HC / Wim Heylen

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:00:00 +0000

The terraced house is located in a housing project from '58 in Wondelgem, Belgium. The project has the typical combination of identical row houses with alternately mirrored ground plans. All of them have a single-storey extension and a semi-private road at the back of the plot connecting the various garages and garden storages. Over the years many residents have filled up the open space between the extensions with verandas and secondary buildings, and by thus have lost relationship with the exterior space.

House CW / Wim Heylen

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 02:00:00 +0000

This single-family house is located in Nazareth, a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders. It is situated in a street with a variety of housing typologies nearby a big natural pond. The site has a great depth running from the permitted building zone up to an area of trees and dense vegetation in the back. The main idea behind this project was to give the owners an optimal view on those trees and taking advantage of the orientation to fill the house with natural light according the needs of the different spaces.