House HC
W im H ey l e n
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he 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.
For this reason, the veranda, a secondary extension and the garden storage
of this rowhouse were broken down. The building was returned to its
original state as the starting point of the new volume. It connects with the
main structure across the entire width of the plot, but then works towards
the line of the original extension and opens again towards the garden. Due
to this compression and decompression of interior and exterior space,
the house unfolds into the garden and brings green and daylight into the
interior, without the use of light domes or patios.
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