Platte-Lo Housing
We are at a pivotal point between the rather green Dejonghe neighborhood and the hardened Platte-Lostraat in Leuven. The design replaces an elongated 1950s residential building that literally and figuratively cuts across the landscape characterized by ground-level homes interspersed with massive apartment blocks. We see a hodgepodge of pronounced gable roofs, flat roofs and hipped roofs.
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The previously anti-social existing buildings will be replaced by two freestanding collective residential buildings. We give the ensemble varying building heights and large pitched roofs which give a homely look to the ensemble of 25 residential units. The roofs mediate between the surrounding gable roofs, flat roofs and hipped roofs.
The whole is embedded in a fordable landscape as a space for meeting that provides an access moment to the green Dejonghe neighborhood behind. The chosen urban typology creates a spatial accent on Platte Lostraat, which spatially and mentally connects the neighborhoods to the left and right of this street as a transitional moment.
The facades were elaborated in sober articulation in light brick and concrete. The vertically mitered sections with deeper joint create a subtle expression.
- TYPE Residential
- YEAR 2020
- LOCATION Leuven
- builder Dijledal CVBA
- SPACE 2000 m²
- BUDGET €4.5 million
- PHASE Contest, 3rd place
