This project is part of a larger project of renovation of a former warehouse at the earth of Brussels. The family chose to settle in the front building along the street wich had 3 levels, and have been risen by a level and a half. The ground floor provides access to other properties of the building. The design is rational. The living room has been placed in the new volume on the top floor to enjoy the view over the city. A central staircase distributes to other parts of the house, carved element which is read as a dark mass. Its design is deliberately winding which induces a complexity, blurring the marks it gives a new dimension to the course. The rooms are designed in a simple way: around this staircase seeking views and light. Eventually, some items such as the kitchen, were designed by the architects. It looks as an assemblage of distinct objects that can be used separately or together. A metal structure similar to a bicycle frame weaves the link between each element or each function.

Status : completed
Surface : 210m²
Location : Brussels

Duplex apartment for Thierry & Lydie.

An old industrial building transformed in this luminous and quite abstract apartment.

In 2007, we transformed an office located in Brussels into an apartment designed by the architect Claude Laurens.
Before his death, Claude Laurens had given to her wife a hand-sketch about the transformation of the concerned building, in case she would come back to live in Brussels. She did come to Brussels, and she asked Lhoas & Lhoas to accomplish the transformation.

Some years later, we are now working on a building by the same author: the entire refurbishment of a villa in Saint-Tropez.
A particular attention on modernist heritage lead this project to an important preliminary study of the existing situation, original materials and architectural components.

The project concerns the extension of a house dating from the end of the modernist period. Its interior is even more characteristic of the art déco style. This small semi-detached house laying on a rather small ground could only be enlarged by means of an increased part.

One of the particularity of the house is the large staircase coiled up in the front facade. The staircase provides to the house a high quality and functionnal spatial system. So we decided to extend it to the new raised level and to lay out a bathroom and a dressing-room in the front part of the extension and two bedrooms in the back. The bedrooms face a large terrace and can be connected thanks to a sliding panel. This arrangement allows the visitor to see the entire length and width of the space which is then understood as a fluid and luminous unity.