Being the old mayor of the community of Houthulst, our client has a special relationship with the region of West Flanders and the village of Houthulst.  During his tenure, he realized different architectural projects with the Dutch architecture studio Rapp+Rapp.  

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Architects: dmvA Architecten

Location: Houthulst, Belgium

Team: David Driesen, Tom Verschueren, Nandi Degrave

Structural Engineering: ASB

Client: Joris Hindryckx

Area: 110.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Sergio Pirrone

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Text description provided by the architects. Being the old mayor of the community of Houthulst, our client has a special relationship with the region of West Flanders and the village of Houthulst.  During his tenure, he realized different architectural projects with the Dutch architecture studio Rapp+Rapp.  
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After living there for decades, he got the opportunity to buy a small building plot at the back of the garden of his house. The plot was part of the park of a former convent and featured 2 oak trees and 1 beech tree. Limited by his tight disposable budget, the mayor initially intended to build a ?turnkey house? with a local contractor.  He requested dmvA to check the design technically and budgetary.  But dmvA started designing instead.

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