Villa Van Wassenhove

In 1972, Juliaan Lampens received the commission from Albert Van Wassehove, a professor with interest in art and architecture, to build a house in middle class residential area near Ghent. Lampens started to stand out as an architect after the Brussels Expo of 1958 making a series of projects in concrete with specific references to the architecture of Mies Van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. En 1972, Juliaan Lampens recibe el encargo de Albert Van Wassenhove, un profesor con intereses hacia la arquitectura y el arte para construirle una casa en un área residencial de clase media a las afueras de Ghent. Lampens había empezado a destacar tras la Expo de Bruselas en 1958 realizando una serie de proyectos en hormigón con claras referencias a la arquitectura de Mies van der Rohe y Le Corbusier. Villa Van Wassenhove is a project that, at the same time, is featured by the shape of its concrete shell as well as the distribution of its free plan. The continuous concrete structure creates an external and internal topography that defines a home without partitions where a subtle layout plan defines the specific spaces. A series of geometries in plan and elevation delimit the specific functions: the sleeping area is a cylinder, the kitchen cover is a triangle and the office is a square. In the exterior, a water tank is also defined by a cylinder. The housing is finished with glass opening and wood cladding, being a contrast with the roughness of the concrete. La Villa Van Wassenhove es un proyecto que se caracteriza al mismo tiempo por la volumetría de su cascaron de hormigón como por la distribución de su planta libre. La estructura continua de hormigón crea una topografía tanto exterior como interior que define un hogar sin particiones, casi diáfano, donde la organización en planta organiza los distintos espacios.