In this old factury, originally used for retting flax, Joke Vermeulen & Francis Catteeuw of compagnie-O. architecten are working to transform it into their home. 8 years they’ve been working on this amazing project, and in a few months, it’s finally supposed to be finished. With Unité, we got a sneek peak for oursection (t)huiswerk, where we visit architects in their homes. The story behind this project is very interesting, and can be found in our first issue on page 13, although only in Dutch. It’s too much to translate (or even summarize), so I will leave you with these pictures. I hope they speak for themselves, because I’m extremely excited about this project! The view is amazing, and I love that it’s so pure and industrial, while still being one with the environment.
all pictures taken by me for Unité
One of the sections in Unité is called ‘op visite’. In this section, we visit a student and photograph where they live. For this first edition, I visited Sarah from La fille de Joujouelle. Her room is stuffed with great finds from flea markets or thrift shops and gifts from her family. The result is amazing, anyone would love to live there!
all pictures taken by me
So… Time has come to tell you about what has been consuming all my free time lately!
This year, I’m part of Existenz, which is a group of students from the first master of architecture in Leuven. All year, we work towards our Existenz Maximum Week: we get our hands on an abandonned building in Leuven and completely transform it into architectural heaven. During this week, we organise workshops and lectures – all of them more or less connected to architecture. (More information about Existenz (although only in Dutch) and the things we do, can be found at our website.)
2010-2011 is the 16th year of Existenz and this year, we’re taking it one step further. We’ve created a magazine, called ‘Unité’, which will be found for free in all architecture schools in Flanders. Yesterday the first issue came out, and all of us are so proud of what we’ve accomplished.
Therefor, I present you the on line version of Unité #1.
MercevanSaral
I decided to play along with Flickr Faves Friday, after seeing it on Here Comes the Sun. There’s only supposed to be 5 pictures but oh, well… I wanted to share all of these. I think it’s obvious I have a soft spot for black and white pictures. Who else’s joining me?
Last Saturday, I visited “DSGNRMRKT” at the Modemuseum of Hasselt, a market where young fashiontalent sold unique fashion. I saw some pretty cool stuff!
I’m so in love with that coat by Ti+Hann!
Lots of colors and bold prints at Irene Heldens
Jewelry by Lore Langendries.
Made by chickies
Gorgeous lingerie by MajoRey
Lalou Dandine
Fôret Féerique
‘Marcellekes’, as we call them, customised by (from left to right) Stijn Helsen, Cesar Casier, Marcel Vanthilt (obviously), Delphine Boël and Vjeze Fur from De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig. They were auctioned to raise money for Think Pink (an organisation to raise awareness for breast cancer).
All pictures are taken by me.
Joy Newell
David Bellemere
emiliebjork
welcome, ghosts
Gewoon Lies
Black Balloon
