Renovation of TL House. From simple bungalow to dwelling with volume and height gamesUntitled Article

An old one-story bungalow with 1, poorly insulated and with 1/4 of its volume occupied by a hardly used indoor garage. The family of new owners of TL House wants optimized energy performance and renovated space

WE-S architecten, the firm in charge of the TL House renovation project, envisions a maximum extension of 459 cubic meters, distributed over one floor and oriented east-west. A new carport is planned within the new volume at the front of the house

To ensure optimal natural light entry into the existing building, part of the volume is cut off by serving as a covered terrace sheltered from the western wind

The design seeks to integrate the bungalow into its environment with a certain simplicity of planning and materials. Varying heights play a game of compression and decompression, which has its center of gravity in the double-height living space