This period house in the Gent city centre featured a central passage, giving onto two rooms to the right and a staircase, a room and a kitchen to the left.
passage
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The intervention created a flexible configuration, allowing the ground floor surface to be arranged as either the existing symmetric setting or an open-plan space that is created by folding away the partition walls.
passage
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When the walls are in place, both rooms look like they did before the renovation, including the wainscoting.
open space open table
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When the walls are removed – which is easily done – the living room and kitchen tables can be joined up to form one long table that acts as a physical link connecting all ground floor spaces.
open space
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The courtyard is tiny. Two extra windows bring light into the house.
open space
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closed space
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detail
© ALT - Thierry Lagrange . Published on February 18, 2014.
detail
© ALT - Thierry Lagrange . Published on February 18, 2014.
detail
© ALT - Thierry Lagrange . Published on February 18, 2014.
detail
© ALT - Thierry Lagrange . Published on February 18, 2014.
plan open configuration
© ALT - Thierry Lagrange . Published on February 18, 2014.