As part of our bachelor’s program, we were asked to design a house for the curator of a local, small museum, Z33, in Hasselt. The location was an old historical site with beautiful, old architecture. When I started designing this project, I decided to design my building so the residents could enjoy all the beautiful views of the site. This was the main idea of this project – to embrace all the views in the house and turn the windows into frames for the beauty outside. 

I decided to make my building something completely different than the surrounding buildings. I believed it was important to show it was a new building and not try to make an extension of the old buildings. In my eyes, an extension of the older buildings would have been disrespectful to the history of the older buildings. I wanted to make the difference between the new and the old clear to emphasize the old.