For the last edition of Unité’s ‘op visite’, I photographed my friend Camiel’s studio. You can read the article here on page 31 (in Dutch only).
all pictures taken by me
For the second edition of (t)huiswerk (where we portray an architect’s own home), we visited Jan de Muynck. You can read the article here on page 19, but I’ll give you a short explanation about the concept of his house. Three of the facades are more or less closed, only the facade facing the neighbouring house is entirely open. This radical decision has it’s influence on the inside of the house of course, which I hope you can see in the photos.
Hallway on the topfloor, on the left side you see the children’s rooms, which are extremely small and get their daylight through a sky light. The hallway is very wide and functions as an extension of the children’s rooms, they play in the hallway and find privacy in their small rooms.
all pictures taken by me
This time, I photographed my friend Liesbeth’s place for the ‘Op Visite’ article in Unité (page 31). Her interior consists of vintage finds, things found on small markets and in charity shops, and family pieces. The beautiful painting is by Nele Tas, and is rented through ‘Kunst op Kot’.
P.S. Ik ben nog op zoek naar iemand voor de volgende editie! Vind je je eigen kot de moeite waard of ken je iemand wiens kot het verdient om in onze Unité te staan? Stuur me een mailtje met enkele foto’s en wie weet sta jij in de volgende Unité!
The second edition of our Unité magazine is out! You can read it here (only in Dutch) and I will tell you more about the articles I worked on soon!
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.
In the next few days, I will tell you more about the articles that I worked on, but in the meantime, tell me what you think of the overall look!