't Leeshoekje

Front view on the building.

Project Details

• Project Name: 't Leeshoekje
• Client: Thijs-Kempeneers
• Project Type: Commercial building - renovation
• Principal Designer/s: Egide Meertens
• Design Team: Egide Meertens Architect BVBA
• Date of commencement of project: 2004
• Date of completion of project: 2005
• Location of site: Riemst, Belgium
• Cost of Construction/Execution: € 23375

Corner view on the building.

Words from the architect

This project concerns the renovation of a commercial building. It is located next to an earlier realisation that was situated a bit retracted so that it would not compete with the older building. The way the plot is integrated on the premises creates a very private back garden, which maintains a visual relationship with the private space situated above the commercial space. Shop visitors on the other have no visual contact with the back garden.
The existing commercial building was renovated but, for budgetary reasons, with only a limited number of alterations. The adjustment of the window openings characterises this renovation project. The protruding steel windows are an obvious eye catcher to passerss-by.

Detail of the adjustments of the window openings.

Front view on the building by night.

View from the private back garden to the commercial building (right) and the dwelling (left).

Credits

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