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Twin Roof House
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Built in close collaboration with Belgium’s largest turnkey construction company, this house turns traditional solutions upside down in several ways.
Formally, its most striking feature is the split roof. One roof contains extra guest rooms, while the other adds volume and grandeur to a tightly organized, all-inclusive ground floor. Despite Its modest appearance, the house hosts a surprisingly generous interior, merging living, dining, kitchen, study and greenhouse.
Blending in with the quiet row of detached houses around, it manifests its richness in the details. The exterior materials balance degrees of tactility and a muted range of color tones, while every area of the living floor enjoys combinations of different light, visual depths and views to the street, the upper floor, the garden, or the nearby fields with the Atomium in the distance.

single family house
data & credits
Data & credits
Location: 
Wemmel, BE
Project: 
2005
Completion: 
2009
Client: 
private
In collaboration with: 
Wust
51N4E tasks: 
final design / follow-up
Project team: 
Johan Anrys, Freek Persyn, Peter Swinnen, Sotiria Kornaropoulou, Kelly Hendriks, Bob De Wispelaere
Construction: 
Wust
Programme: 
private house
Site surface: 
688 m²
Built surface: 
217 m²
Construction cost (excl VAT): 
350.000 €
Photography: 
Stijn Bollaert
Image credits: 
51N4E