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BOGAERT HOUSE NO. 2
/ UCCLE (BRUSSELS)
/ 1978
/ 1979–1980
In a way, the Bogaert house expresses the breaking
apart of the archetype, the almost brutal destruction
of the traditional silhouette and the use of what could
be interpreted as a double or even a triple language.
The hollowed-out angle gives rise to unexpected views,
both external and internal, but the alternating solids and
voids still make reference to ‘classical’ modernism. In
the same way, the use of white-painted masonry in non-
hollowed-out areas and in the hollowed-out zones, and
fenestrations consisting of a succession of breast walls
and glazed areas, are oddly evocative of the curtain walls
of much larger constructions. It is worth noting that the
series of overlapping serving and served spaces (to bor-
row the terminology of Louis Kahn) was eliminated, for
functional reasons, in favour of a more flexible arrange-
ment of piping, among other constraints. Henceforth,
this type of reasoning will be the domain of both
the architect and the engineer.
Lower ground floor
Upper ground floor
Roof
First floor