3 apartments

Interior view of the terrace.

The building is 3 building layers high and consists of 3 flats of + 200 sq. m. each and 3 garages. The building starts from a closed volume with protruding terraces anticipating to the landscape: these terraces are orientated towards the bridge and the channel. The simple shape of the building is a reference to the bunker across the Albert Channel and to the future shape of the bridge with the hotel and catering function below it.

To ensure that sufficient light is entering at the back of the adjacent houses, the backside of the project is finished in a step-like way.

Exterior view of the terrace.

The 3 garages are located at the back of the building and can be reached via the new servitude road that links up with the Trekweg. The garage doors are thus turned away from the road and are not visible from the Maastrichtersteenweg.

Special attention is paid to the integration in the road image and environment. As the entrance of the building is located against the connected houses, the building comes loose from them. Also because the building is placed 13 metres off the road axis, an incision is created in the road image, which makes the building come loose from the row of houses.

Credits

• Text, Egide Meertens (translation by 'Aalsters Vertaalbureau')
• Photographs by Philippe van Gelooven, Courtesy of Egide Meertens
  

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