MIDRAS / GRAUX & BAEYENS architects

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  • Architects: GRAUX & BAEYENS architects: GRAUX & BAEYENS architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  825
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2010
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Text description provided by the architects. The existing situation consists of a central volume flanked by two uniform wings.

MIDRAS / GRAUX & BAEYENS architects - Windows, Facade
© Julien Lanoo Photographs

The assignment was to transform the central volume into a dynamic office building with a housing-unit. At the frontside of the building the architects chose not to break the strong horizontality but to enhance it instead by creating a balanced composition of stacked white volumes. The spacing between these massive volumes and the recessed windows creates an interesting number of vistas.

MIDRAS / GRAUX & BAEYENS architects - Windows, Facade
© Julien Lanoo Photographs

In strong contrast with the existing wings of the building nothing of the interior organization is given away from the outside: the volume protects itself from the busy road situated in front of it. The interior organization is composed in a manner to allow a maximum amount of natural daylight into the building, between the two 10meter high walls separating the central volume from the adjacent buildings.

MIDRAS / GRAUX & BAEYENS architects - Stairs, Windows, Facade, Handrail
© Julien Lanoo Photographs

The office is located on the ground floor, level -1 and level +1. The penthouse with terraces stretches out from front to back on the upper floor .

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© Julien Lanoo Photographs

On the backside a 3 story high lightshaft is brought into the building while at the frontside a void separates level +1 from the façade and creates a relation with the underlying floors.

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© Julien Lanoo Photographs

On the ground level two staircases connect to floor -1 in a way that it becomes fully a part of the office.

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Address:Dendermondsesteenweg, 9070 Destelbergen, Belgium

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Cite: "MIDRAS / GRAUX & BAEYENS architects" 08 Jan 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/195532/midras-graux-baeyens-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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