VILLA MARIE-PROSPER, MORTSEL
| CLIENT | Private |
| LOCATION | Mortsel |
| FUNCTION | Living/working |
| AREA | 72 m2 |
| TEAM | Filip Jacobs Gert Janssens Stéphanie Gielen |
| COOPERATION CONTRACTOR | Ecses General Construction Company Paul Verschueren Concept – A FMP aluminium |
| PHASE | Realisation |
| PHOTOS | Nick Claeskens |
‘Villa Marie Prosper’ was an old holiday home of a doctor, built in an eclectic style with Art Nouveau ornaments. The client wished to expand the house on the ground floor. The’ villa’ has been inventoried on the list of architectural heritage. The house extension will therefore be designed with a great respect for the existing volume. New and old must strengthen each other’s identity.
The house is wrapped with a new transparent volume on the ground floor. The dimensions of the wooden structure are adjusted to the volume of the existing winter room. On the street side, the new volume pulls back so that the house seems to be separate from the expansion.
The extension is designed as a porch structure in wood and relates to the vertical façade structure of the existing house. The large ceiling height makes it possible to create a mezzanine. This intimate place overlooks both the street and garden side and serves as a reading corner/library. In the extension of the extension there will be a spacious terrace, which is elevated in relation to the garden. Folded windows in the rear facade ensure that inside and outside almost seamlessly overlap.