This inspiring brick house designed in 2017 by dmvA is located in Houthulst, Belgium.

Description
House H is located in Houthulst, West-Flanders. The client was the mayor of this village from 2003 to 2006 and that creates a bond. In the past he realized some projects with dmvA for Hogeschool Vives, of which he is the director.
When he considered to buy a model house due to a limited budget, he consulted dmvA. Since dmvA believed that the model house didn?t fit in with the surroundings, a non-binding sketch was made of a house where all residential functions are located on the ground floor. That way there would be no insight from the surrounding apartment buildings. The client was convinced by the sketch and decided to work with dmvA for the creation of his home. There were some unfavorable factors of the plot that dmvA had to take into account for the design. For example, the plot isn?t orientated very well and is surrounded by high apartment buildings. Moreover, there was a limited budget and the project had to have a low ecological footprint. dmvA followed the concept of a nine-square grid with a patio and skylight to provide light indoors. The middle segment became a patio, with alongside a covered terrace with a sliding door. It resulted in a home where sufficient light and air circulates, contact with the garden included. On the plot there were three old tall trees, a legacy of the former adjacent Xaverian monastery: a beech in the front, an oak in the ba...