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New service and storage elements have been inserted using closed free-standing wooden boxes...

Intervention in this 19th Century industrial building started off by reclaiming the existing brickwork and then went on to employ a minimal range of materials: concrete and wood...

The same deceptive game used by the architects on the facade is repeated inside the dwelling to divide off the living area and the kitchen...

La librería de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Mairea Libros, ha elegido el libro 10 Historias sobre Vivienda Colectiva como Mejor Libro de Arquitectura de 2013...

Converting this farmyard into a dwelling meant natural light needed to be brought to the interior...

Any construction is more sustainable provided it involves less production processes, less transportation and less construction work...

The latest issue (398) of the French magazine L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui reviews the book 10 Stories of Collective Housing...

This work involved rebuilding a house and a workshop for two artists. The dwelling (shown in a+t magazine n. 41) has not undergone many alterations...

"This diagram, which appears in later versions of the Maki text, Collective Form, Three Paradigms, is a schematic representation of three ways of classifying the Collective Form..."

With a very low budget the architects converted a simple four-room row house into a vertical succession of open spaces with natural light flowing through them...

One of the most radical actions in this project was to take the roof off the kitchen of the former dwelling to build a rectangular courtyard...

When the architects undertook work on this dwelling from the post-war period, when it was a common practise in Japan to imitate Western architecture, they discovered that the original timber structure...

“The location occupied by this market house is firstly a fragment of the city and secondly a house, a space which has constantly shifted throughout the centuries..."

This house extension is not an annex to the existing building, it is actually a second house...

This work involved renovating a former industrial unit, located near the downtown area, by converting it to a dwelling and an office...

A former farmhouse in a rural setting was converted into a living space by a process involving exchanging open spaces...

The approach to this conversion was to extend out the kitchen and work spaces...

The conversion of this industrial building into a dwelling establishes a dialogue between the existing run-down structure and the oblique logic of the new timber dividing elements...

This new roof is actually more than just a single roof. It echoes all the roofs in the street as an irregular reflection of the setting...

In the renovation work for this dwelling, the vertical circulation between the new structures has been laid out in a zigzag sequence crossing the central wall located below the lintel...

The original function of these 19th Century buildings was to service the nearby Holland Park villas and often the ground floors were used as stables...

This three-storey house is a temporary shelter for the homeless. The main action was to incorporate new insulated panelling lining the outer walls...

This is the action number 38 of 54 that can be found in the issue of a+t magazine entitled Reclaim - Domestic Actions. It forms part of the Re- process Remove, that collects domestic actions in which one observes a clear intention of eliminating the material with the purpose of creating an opening where before there was a solid.

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For issue 41 of a+t magazine, Reclaim Domestic Actions, 20 home refurbishment actions implemented in projects by Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu have been selected. The defining features of the architecture by the Belgians are renunciation, transgression and low cost.