Gallery Post // Rabbit Hole House by LENS°ASS Architecten, Belgium. (Yellowtrace)

Project Name: Rabbit Hole.
Location: Pajottenland, Belgium.
Architects: LENS°ASS Architecten.

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The Rabbit Hole, by LENS’ASS Architecten is a private single-family dwelling and veterinary clinic.

“Paving brick gives unity from floor to roof. In the category “Single-Family House”, architect Bart Lens impressed the jury with his project in Gaasbeek, Belgium, titled “The Rabbit Hole”, which involved the renovation of a half-collapsed brick farmhouse into a residential area and a veterinary practice. A funnel-shaped annex was built as an intermediate space between the two buildings. The main challenge was how to adapt an old farmhouse to meet today’s residential requirements without destroying its rural character. Bart Lens: “Brick is used here not only as a construction material, but also as a concept reinforcing the existing structure. It is the binding element between the past and the present.” What struck the jury most was the creation of the intermediate space: “It is really inspiring when one stands in the public area looking through this newly created passage where one cannot see what is happening on the other side, so that one has to leave oneself to be led by the light,” says Plamen Bratkov.