Geneva-based architect Stef Claes took cues from mid-century and native structure to create Home within the Fields, a low-lying house within the Belgian countryside.
Set inside a large agricultural panorama, the house has white-painted partitions and black accents, which Claes stated attracts on mid-century fashionable buildings in the USA.
In the meantime, extra conventional parts together with a terracotta tile roof are designed as nods to different agricultural buildings discovered within the area.
To make sure Home within the Fields sits subtly inside its setting, Claes designed the home with a protracted, low kind supposed to observe the flatness of the panorama.
This additionally aligns with the world’s “strict constructing code that put a restrict on the quantity”, he stated.
“The placement of the home is fairly particular, it’s situated in extensive open fields, lengthy, massive stretches of agricultural land, with lengthy slim paths and roads parallel to it,” Claes instructed Dezeen.
“The home is sort of a refined pencil strike within the discipline that mimics the motion of the panorama – current however absent in the identical means,” Claes added.
“To slot in this system and create a relentless relationship with the fantastic thing about the environment, we opted for a low and lengthy quantity, with simple bodily and visible entry to the perimeters.”
Home within the Fields has a brick-infilled, cross-laminated timber (CLT) body, chosen to mirror the shopper’s background within the lumber business.
It’s divided into two wings, with the bedrooms set to 1 facet of the plan and residing areas, together with a brightly lit kitchen and front room, on the opposite.
Inside, white-painted partitions and calmly colored, pure supplies create a sequence of vibrant areas, paired with black accents as a nod to modernist design.
“The time I spent working in California on conversions and restorations of mid-century fashionable homes planted the seeds for the design of this house,” Claes defined.
Claes additionally referenced the work of architects together with Quincy Jones and Richard Neutra, in addition to Belgian architect Axel Ghyssaert who’s “identified for his stark black and white mixtures”.
All through the residence, the rooms are bordered on either side by massive home windows and, on the taller wall, clerestory home windows fitted with motorised blinds.
“The inside is derived from the open bungalow plan, with plenty of openness and views by the complete home and on the encircling fields from all angles,” stated Claes.
The kitchen and eating space are warmed by wood surfaces and separated from the lounge by a double-sided fire set right into a white-painted brick quantity.
Black ceiling beams and slate-coloured terracotta ground tiles stretch throughout the size of the house.
Different areas embrace a smaller leisure space wrapped in Belgian linen and a toilet completed with marble surfaces and darkish timber joinery. Outdoors, a big backyard and swimming pool flanked by a black timber veranda provide extra area for leisure.
Accessed by a curving path, the backyard is bordered on one different facet by white brick partitions, connecting to the house to create an L-shaped quantity.
Different Belgian properties lately featured on Dezeen embrace a renovated residence constructed round a concrete spiral staircase and a courtyard home produced from supplies sourced from the demolition of a warehouse.
The images is by Eric Petschek.
