A beautiful plot with endless views... but unfortunately next to a truckers company. How to make the most of these two contradictory influences"Our concept: we placed a narrow, long and tall house on the far right of the parcel. The property itself acts as a screen to cover up the unsightly, noisy neighbour on the right.

© Luc Roymans

Architects: DMOA architects

Location: Bierbeek, Belgium

Lead Architects: Charlotte Gryspeerdt, Benjamin Denef, Matthias Mattelaer

Area: 440.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Luc Roymans

Engineering: Marcel Lavreysen

Structural Work: Bouwbedrijf Geuns

Windows: Bouwbedrijf Beneens
Interior: Jacobs Interieur

Site Area: 2683 m2

© Luc Roymans

From the architect. A beautiful plot with endless views... but unfortunately next to a truckers company. How to make the most of these two contradictory influences"Our concept: we placed a narrow, long and tall house on the far right of the parcel. The property itself acts as a screen to cover up the unsightly, noisy neighbour on the right.

© Luc Roymans

The right side of the house has a blind facade, while the other side opens freely towards a large, sunny garden, where there is little evidence left of the fleet and accompanying roar. Or how everything falls into place by an atypical choice of implantation and volume ...The head of the lengthy volume...