Belgian studio Mamout has prolonged a townhouse in Brussels, including a small backyard room constructed from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured metal.
Aiming to enhance the connection between the house and its backyard, Mamout drew on the type of an current bow window on the rear facade to create a glazed seating space for the present kitchen.
“The goal is to create the smallest attainable extension, however one that gives a radically new notion of house from the within,” Mamout architect Sarah Avni instructed Dezeen.
“We think about the extension as a response to the present bow window, which is a typical ingredient of Belgian structure,” she added.
The backyard room sits barely elevated off the bottom to keep away from masking the house’s basement home windows and is accessed from the backyard patio by a small concrete stair.
Whereas mimicking the present home windows kind, Mamout opted for a metal construction that would offer a contrasting “skinny and lightweight look”. This was manufactured as a single piece by a shipbuilding workshop in Liège, permitting it to be craned into place and “plugged into” the present constructing.
“The intervention is built-in into the facade as a bow window ought to be, like a floating ingredient, permitting the fabulous wisteria to proceed spreading,” mentioned Avni.
“The tolerance for attainable errors was very low – every thing was settled and designed earlier than it was introduced on website,” she added.
Inside, a full-height opening leads from the kitchen into the extension, the place a contrasting stone ground end subtly units it other than the remainder of the room.
A built-in window bench follows the curve of the metal kind, with a small desk offering an space to have breakfast overlooking the backyard, each completed with matching fluted wooden bases.
A minimal, white end has been given to the partitions and full-height window frames, matching these already within the dwelling whereas serving to to focus consideration in direction of the backyard.
“We proposed a really calm and peaceable environment punctuated by a curved bench that follows the metal shell,” mentioned Avni. “The place of the bench permits you to be seated within the backyard.”
Mamout was based in Brussels in 2014 by Matthieu Busana and Sébastien Dachy.
Earlier initiatives by the studio embody the refurbishment of one other Brussels townhouse that “makes probably the most of what already exists” and a courtyard home constructed utilizing supplies from a dismantled warehouse.
The images is by Séverin Malaud.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Mamout
Construction: JZH & Companions
Vitality: Earth&Bee
Furnishings designer: Sébastien Caporusso
Ornament: Aurore de Borchgrave
Contractor: G-Line Assemble
Steelwork: Ateliers Melens & Dejardin
