Tag: ISMMostrar todas las entradas

i.s.m.architecten . photos: © Luis Diaz Diaz

This renovation aims to pay homage to the original house while holding on to its distinctive identity as a contemporary addition. It echoes the house’s original shape, but breaks the continuity by a shift in material palette and a formal lateral shift. The extension combines solidity and hyper-transparency, using glass to merge indoor and outdoor spaces. Inside, the design optimizes space, balancing spaciousness with intimacy, creating distinct zones within an open plan to enhance the home’s functionality and atmosphere. Continue reading i.s.m.architecten

I.S.M.ARCHITECTEN . photos: © LUIS DÍAZ DÍAZ

The original design of this highly modernist single-storey house by Turnhout School architect Paul Neefs consists of a square of 16.5 x 16.5 m with a central space that runs diagonally between two circle segments. These two curved walls define the generous open space where everyday life takes place. Continue reading I.S.M.ARCHITECTEN

I.S.M.ARCHITECTEN . photos: © Luis Diaz Diaz

This concrete building is a single-family house based in a typical Flemish village centre. The bulk of the street consists of rowhouses that have their front facade aligned to the sidewalk due to the predictable extrusion of the imposed gabarit. A thorough, formal investigation into how this house could break through this village frontispiece led to a footprint with a pentagonal shape, reducing the point of contact with the street to a strict minimum. Continue reading I.S.M. architecten

i.s.m.architecten . photos: © Luis Dìaz Dìaz

GEVDB, a house for Jelle and Liesbet, in progress. Continue reading i.s.m.architecten