LVDV - An appartement for L.
This renovation project provides an answer to several social tendencies. There is an influx of an elderly generation of inhabitants into the city, who will live on smaller surfaces and closer together. By re-evaluating valuable existing architecture in the city centre, we try to respond to this phenomenon with a minimum of constructive interventions but maximum use of the existing structure. Sometimes consciously not adjusting architecture can also be architecture. Thanks to a clever, fresh plan development tailored to Lieve, we try to optimize the existing architecture.
Through the design, we wanted to achieve an as spacious as possible setting for when she is alone while maintaining a certain level of privacy when someone stays over.
Through the design, we wanted to achieve an as spacious as possible setting for when she is alone while maintaining a certain level of privacy when someone stays over.
The existing structural wall that runs through the two compartments forms the plan's backbone. All the barriers we added are soft ones: glass doors, sliding doors and a pivoting cupboard, creating different degrees of transparency. Through the use of colour, the punctures of this structuring wall are articulated but only reveal themselves when a door opens, or a pivoting door is turned.
Location Louvain(BE)
completion 2015
client private
program apartment interior
architecture unknown
interior architecture i.s.m.architecten
photographs Luis Dìaz Dìaz