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Terraced House
Huiswerk architecten. Antwerp, Belgium
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Name of work in English
Terraced House
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Name of work in original language
Huis in de Veldstraat
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2007
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Work Location
Antwerp, Belgium
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Studio
Huiswerk architecten
EUmies Awards 2007 Nominees
The house in Veldstraat is conceived on the basis of maximum interaction with the town and the neighbourhood.
Collaborators
Design: Erik Wie, Dirk Somers; Collaborator (office): Christophe Van Boxtel, Pieter Eeckeloo; Structural engineering: Newton BVBA
Program
Single house
Completion
2005
The big double doors on the ground floor ensure contact with the street. The entrance hall is a combination of a grand front door and a service entrance. The fulllength window, which can be opened, links the interior to life on the street; this is an architectural consolidation of one of the traditions of this workingclass district. The stairs run up the inside of the facade in halfstorey sections. The pattern of circulation is marked in the facade, thereby coupling grandeur with nonchalance. At the same time this affirms the forced marriage between house and street.
Every year the facade in fibre-cement sheeting is overgrown by Virginia creeper. This means the changing of the seasons is once again visible on this street.