Essentially, the detached 3-level house, originally built in 1936, asked for a thorough reconversion. A hotchpotch of rooms, most of them low on natural light, made the house lack spatiality and gave it a rather closed, introvert feeling. 

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Architects: Qatarchitecten

Location: Ghent, Belgium

Architect In Charge: Quirijn Thijs

Area: 470.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Luc Roymans

Structural Engineer : UTIL struktuurstudies

Long Cabinet Design: Filip Janssens

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Essentially, the detached 3-level house, originally built in 1936, asked for a thorough reconversion. A hotchpotch of rooms, most of them low on natural light, made the house lack spatiality and gave it a rather closed, introvert feeling. 
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Floor Plan

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However, it was the habitable area of 470 m², the garden and the location in the residential area of the city center of Ghent, quiet but close to traffic interchanges, that persuaded the owners to buy this property. Bringing daylight into the house and creating a link with the garden was the first requirement, next to adapting the outdated house to contemporary living standards.

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The owners, a family with three playful boys, love spending time outside ...