BERK House Transformation

BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas

BERK House Transformation 

Bauclub

ARCHITECTS
Bauclub

ILLUSTRATION
Stephane De Groef

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nicolas Da Silva Lucas

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Brussels, Belgium

CATEGORY
Apartments, Renovation

As a young office based in Brussels, Bauclub is regularly required to study the ordinary local typology and therefore reflect on how to position itself in relation to its identified constraints and opportunities.

BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas

Berk is a transformation project of an apartment on the upper floors of a typical building for a family of illustrators and their daughter.

It is an introverted intervention where only the movement of the staircase reveals the existing context (interior and exterior).

This frees the rear façade and brings zenithal light into the vertical void created, a dimly lit space.

BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas

Due to the layout, a game of perspectives is drawn: horizontal, vertical, and oblique planes, and visual sequences are created throughout the apartment.


BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas


BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas
BERK House Transformation
© Nicolas Da Silva Lucas


BERK House Transformation
Plan - 1st floor
BERK House Transformation
Plan - 2nd floor


BERK House Transformation
Section
BERK House Transformation
Section 01
BERK House Transformation
Section 02


BERK House Transformation
Illustration 01
BERK House Transformation
Illustration 02