House M

Philippe Vander Maren + Richard Venlet
Grez-Doiceau, Belgium

This collaboration between an architect and an artist, pays much attention to the elements of architecture and yet succeeds in avoiding its overstatement

Image number 32 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia

In Grez-Doiceau Philippe Vander Maren and Richard Venlet designed a house with a handful elements. Precise decisions, applied to a pragmatic spatial organization, result in an impressive complexity. House M is surrounded by nothing else than woods. Vander Maren and Venlet reconfigure modernist references and free the architecture of House M from the weight of iconic elements. If, for a moment, domestic living could be seen as a play and a house as its scenography.

Only five materials recurrently occur and take over different functions. Facades with glass-on-glass corners of the upper floor make the trees in the garden to a wallpaper for the interior, the brick facade becomes a carpet for the living room, even the roof outside, which welcomes upon arrival, offers a configuration made with circular volumes of skylights and shafts, completed with a slightly larger, low circle containing rain water: an invitation to the birds to still their thirst.

Image number 33 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 34 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 35 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 36 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 37 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 38 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 39 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia
Image number 40 of the current section of House M in Cosentino Australia

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