This private commission for a single family home is located in a wooded residential area in Belgium.The house is a response to strict legislations on implantation and surface occupancy, as well as a municipality desire to promote housing in the neighborhood.

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Architects: AWAA

Location: Belgium

Architects In Charge: Charly Wittock, Christophe Bourdeaux

Area: 465.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Nathalie Van Eygen

Collaborators : Didier Bourtembourg, Aurélien Sauvée

Building Service Engineering & Epb: MK Engineering

Structural Engineering: Ney & Partners

Landscape Architect: Wirtz international
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From the architect. This private commission for a single family home is located in a wooded residential area in Belgium.The house is a response to strict legislations on implantation and surface occupancy, as well as a municipality desire to promote housing in the neighborhood.

© Nathalie Van Eygen

During the development, we proposed to the promoter an added value: a construction that would be energetically addressed, according to the passive house standards.

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This ecological approach led us to a compact construction, avoiding energy losses (dimensions of the openings, orientation of these, thermal bridges, e...