(04)Projects/Residential

Villa Noord

De Haan, Belgium / 2024

Pale concrete roof plane cantilevered from a slender column against a white sky

Location: De Haan, Belgium
Year: 2024
Scope: Architecture / Landscape
Area: 410 m²
Status: Completed
Materials: Cast concrete / Travertine / Glass

A coastal house of two cast volumes, one resting on the other, with a roof plane that reaches for the horizon.

Villa Noord is built almost entirely from a single mix of concrete, cast on site over eleven weeks. The roof is a plane of pale concrete that reaches six metres beyond the glazing to shade the terrace.

A broad stair lifts the house off the dune. The planting was specified with the same restraint as the structure: grasses only, left to move.

Concrete house with a broad stone stair rising through planting — **Fig. 01**Entrance stair, travertine treads

White wall with a single narrow vertical opening to the sky — **Fig. 02**Skylight slot above the stairwell

Daylight across a rough plaster wall beneath a timber-framed window — **Fig. 03**East stair, plaster and oak glazing

“Mass, not ornament, is how a building says it was meant.”

Board-marked concrete wall with tie holes — **Detail**Board-marked concrete, tie holes

Window shadows cast across a pale concrete wall — **Fig. 04**First-floor wall at midday

DetailHoned travertine, entrance floor

Credits

Architecture: Elise Martens
Interior architecture: Julien De Clercq
Objects & furniture: Mila Verhaeghe
Landscape: Veld & Duin (fictional)
Structural engineering: Studio Vandenberghe (fictional)
Photography: Placeholder — see README

Fictional project. Names, figures and credits are placeholders created for a portfolio concept.

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