Gallery House, the architectural project lives in the landscape
Gallery House, the architectural project lives in the landscape

Gallery House, the architectural project lives in the landscape

In Belgium, in a natural landscape surrounded by willows, marshes, and farmland, you can find the Gallery House designed and built by Wim Goes Architectuur.

Landscape and tranquility penetrate the project.

The distinctive character, compared to other architecture projects, is the surprisingly simplicity and linearity. The Gallery House and the environment in which it is inserted evoke tranquility, simplicity, and memory.
Wim Goes Architectuur has thus interpreted the transition from gallery to house (and from house to gallery) with a space in continuous communication that does not determine a clear division between interior and exterior nor ecological distinctions of the context. This is the main substrate of the entire architectural project.

Gallery House, the architectural project lives in the landscape

Materials and architectural details for a breathing architecture

The language and use of materials are connected to the context. The details, based on a rural logic, lead to a simplicity and readability of the architecture that are evident and seem to belong to the landscape. Architecture generates natural processes. Its appearance reflects what it does.
Hempcrete is a biological material used to insulate the Gallery House between the wooden structure and the framework. It balances the air conditions that are breathed and transports them gently.
To protect the construction from the weather elements, aluminum canopies at different heights protect the facade and regulate sunlight. This technique recalls old regional techniques (see reference painting with a view of Tournai, Belgium, Adolphe Delmée, 1864) to preserve exposed wooden constructions.

Gallery House, the architectural project lives in the landscape

A project in continuous transition

Different atmospheres, light and shadow, the perception of space and form, the transition between interior and exterior, manifest themselves according to the variation of many conditions:
the transition is always ongoing, responds to various mechanisms, is open to various possibilities, and one has the perception that the construction is a work in progress as if the entirety of the project is not hindered by a single realization.

Gallery House, the architectural project lives in the landscape

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