This semi-detached house borders a busy road in Brussels. The nuisances of this were all the more noticeable in the living room, as a set of annexes interposed itself with the garden and obstructed natural light.

We wanted to reconnect the house with its garden and the inner block via two strategies.  

Firstly, by isolating the ground floor from the roadway, doubling the street window frame and using translucent glazing, and by recomposing the spaces around a view towards the garden. This is achieved via a new window whose square dimension is taken up in the opening of the two existing load-bearing walls 

This rhythm of three squares is underlined by blades of the new parquet, which direct the eye towards the window shaped like a target. The tunnel effect of this enfilade is softened by the conservatory of the new living room, which catches the afternoon sun.

Then, upstairs, the master bedroom is linked to the outdoors via a terrace whose floor extends and resonaters in colour with the hangar's glass roof. The latter refers to the trees and the large dimension of the inner block, thus expanding the sense of space.