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BLAF01 street view general
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BLAF02 front yard view & facade detail
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BLAF03 garden view
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BLAF04 interior view on staircase first floor
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BLAF05 interior view from dining room first floor
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BLAF06 interior view from childrens area first floor
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BLAF19 elevations and sections
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BLAF20 floor plans
Passive House with Textile Skin
BLAF architecten. Asse, Belgium
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Name of work in English
Passive House with Textile Skin
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Name of work in original language
Passiefhuis met huid van textiel
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Asse, Belgium
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Studio
BLAF architecten
EUmies Awards 2011 Shortlisted
Collaborators
Art: Eva Mouton
Program
Single house
Completion
2009
Belgium is one of the most dense, yet endlessly dispersed areas in Europe. It has come to a point where the existing models for spatial development & often based on private ownership of land & are no longer justifiable. The idea behind this project was based on the architects' research into the generating capacity of architecture on a spatial, social and ecological level. The objective was to explore an alternative and positive approach and thereby cause a shift in the behaviour that has created this problem. The site is on a leftover lot in a 1960s housing development. By designing the front yard as a semipublic 'playground', and by using the front facade literally as a 'drawing board', this house becomes a more social and hospitable element in the neighbourhood.
The topography and orientation of the site and the passive house principals led to an efficient skin design that embodies and reinforces aspects such as transparency, flexibility and interaction.