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Bruno Vanbesien architects . photos: © TIM VAN DE VELDE

From the 1960’s on people have fled the city centre looking for more space and luxury in the green surroundings of Brussels. We now feel the immense ecological impact of this daily movement driving in and out the city. Despite a fantastic history of bourgeois houses designed by Horta, Hankar and Cauchie amongst others, full of incredible details and flooded in light, modernist architects and their clients dreamt of individual detached housing to unleash their creativity.
However, city and creativity are not necessarily opposites. Continue reading Bruno Vanbesien

bruno vanbesien . photos: © Tim van de Velde . + wallpaper

The client dreamed of a house made up of different volumes centered around a green space. The architect however countered this idea of independent volumes by coming up with the concept of one building with the feel of separate buildings. On a rectangular floor plan, around an interior patio of which all living spaces benefit, he constructed a residence both intimate and open. Continue reading bruno vanbesien architects