Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography:  Bas Princen This ofἀce building, housing the West Flanders Chamber of Commerce, stands like a villa in the landscape of the urbanized edge of Kortrijk. The building is conceived as having two faces, like the Roman god Janus, showing distinctly different aspects to the street and the garden. The representative façade on the street side, completely of glass,

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: © Bas Princen The center of Brussels has a periphery inside. A piece of landscape, green, open, idyllic, as if it were on the fringes of the city (where it touches the forest) is to be found in the midst of it. This particular condition is easy to destroy. In order to double the surface of a seemingly freestanding house in this strangely lush environment, it

Fuente: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Fotografía: Bas Princen House extension The expansion of a 19th century town house in the heart of Ghent resulted in two houses. In the irregular outdoor space alongside the existing ‘winter house’ a ‘summer house’ was marked out by a precise modular frame of steel sections, overgrown with grapevines . A narrow strip of this frame, right against the winter house, was roo

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: © Bas Princen The center of Brussels has a periphery inside. A piece of landscape, green, open, idyllic, as if it were on the fringes of the city (where it touches the forest) is to be found in the midst of it. This particular condition is easy to destroy. In order to double the surface of a seemingly freestanding house in this strangely lush environment, it

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: Bas Princen A crematorium is an important public building. It has, however, a conflicted attitude towards self-expression, torn between its technical content and its ceremonial character. To overcome this, we designed the building as a big inclined table, of which the roof – as a ‘nature morte’, developed together with the artist Richard Venlet – is the prot

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: Bas Princen ‘Tondo’ is a footbridge in the centre of Brussels that connects the offices of the Chamber of Representatives with its recent extension, the Forum building, on the other side of the street. The bridge was explicitly designed as a spatial element rather than a technical solution. Named after the Renaissance tradition of the tondo, a circular work

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: Bas Princen This freestanding dwelling is situated in the middle of a parcel between woods and an agricultural area near the village of Buggenhout. The enclosure—a modular steel fence—is an integral part of the design and defines the volume of the house. The surrounding unkempt garden is not included, and functions as an automotive access around the house. T