Modern Concrete House | Pool House | Bornem | Belgium | META Architectuurbureau

In the vicinity of Buitenland, a hamlet of Bornem, META Architectuurbureau realizes a pool house in the garden of an existing house. The green domain of the house is bordered on both the front and rear by the Kwaedhuyskensloop stream.

Within these limits, the pool house, terrace and swimming pond form a succession of elongated surfaces that divide the plot into garden rooms over its entire width.

The concrete walls of the pool house are only interrupted by storey-high steel window doors, which blur the boundary with the covered part of the terrace. Sauna and shower room overlook the flowers and plants in the natural purification basin of the swimming pond. In the large multipurpose room, the open-plan copper kitchen and the concrete fireplace, the chimney of which extends far above the roof, are the only permanent elements.......more