Project description by Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu
A wood, a house, a house in a wood, a wood through the house, the house through the wood.
Starting point is a plot with trees and a little gingerbread house on the edge of the site. The key document is a survey map with the exact position and diameter of every tree.
The building is at odds to and separate from the wood. The wood runs through, around, and in the house. The ground is left untouched. The building must be only a part of the whole. The building can distance itself and look back at itself through the wood.
Structurally, the house is made up of two concrete slabs, kept at a distance from each other by concrete plates that also dictate the internal division. Where a larger span is needed, a supporting chimney breast is used. A foundation on wells ensures that roots can go their own way freely underneath the house. Because the lengths to be spanned by the roof slab are greater on the outside than on the inside, a difference in slab thickness is possible, with natural drainage towards the inside as a consequence.
The large gutter takes water and leaves downwards. Structure is finishing. The drawing of the shuttering is the diagram of the texture. An alternation of flat shuttering, shuttering with sheets of plywood, and board shuttering defines and characterises the different spaces.
18 windows. The facade is made up of windows. Windows that both mark and cancel out the transition between outside and inside. One window is on top of another; the kink is emphasised by the thickness of the next window-frame.
The Belgian architects firm Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu was commissioned to make a single-family home. The starting point is a plot with trees and a small gingerbread house on the edge of the site.
Architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillieu designed a single-storey house that allowed to be in the forest, crossed by the forest, without touching the trees of the forest, to reduce its environmental impact. In order not to impede the growth of the roots of nearby trees, the house was built on a concrete slab punctually supported on the ground.
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jo taillieu architecten. Architecture firm established by Jo Taillieu (1971). He is professor at EPFL (CH), director and manager of his own office, Jo Taillieu plays many parts yet he is first and foremost an architect. After working with different international architecture firms, Jo Taillieu founded his eponymous office in 2004, which he has been leading since. The practice evolved in 2009 to a collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck, with whom he lead the office architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt) for a decade. In 2018 advvt won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant at the 16th Biennale of Venice and was one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.
Next to the joint projects at architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, in 2019 the focus shifted back to its initial commitment, jo taillieu architecten (jta).
Knowledge of the practice, from conception to execution, is one of the strengths of the office. The genuine effort to execute a design and its realisation remains the fundamental concern. In this respect, jo taillieu architecten always strive to the ‘logic of construction’.
2004 – … jo taillieu architecten.
2010 – 2019 architecten de vylder vinck taillieu.
2008 – 2009 partner at Crepain Binst Architecture.
2007 – 2008 project collaborator at Project².
2001 – 2007 project manager at Stéphane Beel - Xaveer De Geyter architecten.
1997 – 2001 project manager at Stéphane Beel architecten.
1995 – 1996 collaborator at Maxwan architecten (NL).
Architecten JDVIV is an architecture studio led by Jan De Vylder (1968) and Inge Vinck (1973) with a solid track record of built work ranging from renovations of single-family homes and apartments to public and institutional buildings. They belong to a new generation of architects who have marked a true generational shift in Belgian architecture.
During the period 2009-2019, Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck collaborated on various projects with the architect Jo Taillieu under the name architecten de vylder vinck taillieu (advvt).
They gained international recognition through several renovations carried out almost entirely in the Flemish city of Ghent: the Verzameld Werk gallery, the Twiggy store, and the 43, Rot-Ellen-Berg, and Rampelken houses.
His work wisely combines respect for existing structures with a lyrical understanding of architecture as bricolage, as a construction within constructions, like a set of Russian nesting dolls. His projects feature strange plays of transparency, reflection (through the use of reflective materials), irony (with the use of local materials and techniques), optical illusions, and the duplication and copying of existing buildings... all of which results in an extremely personal architecture.
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August 30, 2019
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"A house integrated in the forest. BM house by architecten de vylder vinck taillieu " METALOCUS.
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