Kalken, Belgium, Fasonit Smooth Snowwhite

This see-through house with an archetypal shape was covered with smooth fibre cement Fasonit slates in a snow-white colour. The architect, Milos Van den Berghe, wanted to create a volume as close as possible to an archetype of a house. So the shape of a house as it is in our heads if we try to put it down as simplistically as possible. Actually, you end up with the symbol of a house, like a monopoly game cube.

By putting the roof and façade in the same material and also making the details like the gutters as refined as possible, that archetype stands out even more. To contract the house, the profiles of windows and doors were given a dark colour.

See more photos of the project here.