FRIES House, Vlaams Gewest property, Flanders Building, Belgium Design Project, Belgian Architecture Development
FRIES House in Vlaams Gewest, Belgium
5 March 2025
Design: ZOOM architecten
Location: Ieper, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium
Photos: Dieter Van Caneghem
FRIES House, Belgium
Context Becomes Sculpture
The new volume follows the profile of its adjacent neighbour. By cutting off a corner of this volume, we bring direct sunlight everywhere within the contours of the new garden wall. We create a private spot in the sun at any time of day.
As a finishing material, we choose concrete in the façade and roof. This gives the building a sculptural character. This gives Project FRIES a strong own identity and readability, without wanting to stand out.
To optimise privacy, we build a garden wall around the new volume. This linear element delineates a terrace zone in front of the house and forms a second façade and outer border for the interior spaces. This visually greatly increases the ground-floor living space, which answers the question of compact yet spacious and grand living.
Importance of Detail
The structure of the building is conceived as a steel skeleton from which the precast concrete panels are suspended. The prefabrication on workshop allows a high degree of finishing of the concrete façade.
The shape of the window openings is tailored to the interior spaces and designed to reinforce the sculpture. We define three types of window openings, each with different bespoke detailing:
The fixed windows are flush with the concrete exterior façade plane. The opening windows are pushed all the way in with a strike in concrete. The sliding windows on the ground floor are completely behind strike, making especially the opening sections legible in the façade.
This detailing gives the robust concrete building depth and a somewhat playful character. The result is a unique, compact three-fronted house with a surprising spaciousness.
Architecture: ZOOM architecten – https://www.zoom-architecten.be/
Photography: Dieter Van Caneghem
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Location: Ieper, Vlaams Gewest, Flanders, Belgium, western Europe
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