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Entwurf • Design Declerck–Daels, BE-Roeselare
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
BUUR RECHTS :
WONING NR 172
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Bauherr • Client Charlotte Mestdagh, BE-Brügge
Standort • Location Pastoriestraat 174A, BE-Brügge
Bruttogeschossfläche • Gross floor area 97 m 2
Fotos • Photos Tim Van de Velde, BE-Brüssel
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 146
DENTAL PRACTICE
IN BRUGES
The dentist Charlotte Mestdagh had a new practice buil-
ding constructed in the front garden of her residence in
Bruges in Belgium. The Declerck-Daels architectural office
was commissioned with the planning. The architects de-
signed a timber-clad and, in part, two-storey building
which allows views through large windows. Inside, the
practice convinces with Flemish Normcore aesthetics.
F landers is currently for architecture what Ticino was in the 1980s,
Vorarlberg in the 1990s and what the Netherlands were in the
2000s: meaning the one European region where the architectural zeit-
geist appears to make its home right now. This is where architects such
as De Vylder Vinck Taillieu or Kersten Geers and David Van Severen in
the course of the last years have developed a kind of architecture
which is based on the simplest and most cost-effective materials and
constructions, radically leaves these exposed and thus ultimately aes-
theticizes them. This architectural strategy is readily described as
Normcore, a term derived from the fashion of the hipster generation
and meaning the trend to deliberately inconspicuous clothing, to blue
jeans and T shirts. The most recent works by Declerck-Daels
Architecten from Roeslare – such as the dental practice in Bruges
shown here – can also be called Normcore architecture in the best
sense of the term. The new practice is located in a residential area on
the western periphery of the city where the client, Charlotte Mestdah,
is also at home. For many years, her practice was in the converted
garage next to her home before she now commissioned the architects
Bernard Declerck and Griet Daels with a new building. This as well is
in direct structural relation to the residence – now, however, in the
front garden and adjacent to the existing neighbouring development.
On the ground floor of the almost 100 square metres large and, in part,
two-storey new building are two treatment rooms, the practice admin-
istration, a small waiting area as well as WCs and secondary rooms.
On the second floor, there is room for a spacious lounge for the doctor
and her employees. Large skylights and even larger vertical window
areas ensure ample daylight in all the areas as well as views inside
and outside. In accordance with the Normcore philosophy, all the con-
struction materials used were left exposed and their constructive appli-
cation can be noticed – from the screed floor to the walls constructed
of sand-lime bricks and the concrete girders to the wooden ceiling
beams and the fixed plywood furniture.
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