STUDIO FARRIS. CANAL HOUSE HUMBEEK.

THE DOMESTIC SPACE IS ORGANIZED

AROUND A SECRET GARDEN.

STUDIO FARRIS. HUMBEEK运河住宅.

家庭空间围绕一个秘密花园进行组织。

The Canal House was designed by Studio Farris to overlook the Brussel-Scheldt Maritime canal in the Belgian town of Humbeek. This single-family residence successfully develops a series of spatial mediation devices between the indoor and outdoor environments.
运河住宅由Studio Farris设计，可以俯瞰比利时Humbeek镇的布鲁塞尔-斯海尔特海上运河。这个独栋住宅成功地开发了一系列室内和室外环境之间的空间中介装置。

The volume of the Canal House respects the profile of the adjacent houses, but recedes to form an introverted façade that is articulated around a minimal courtyard, a sort of secret garden that offers a condition of peace and intimacy to the ground floor.
运河住宅的体量尊重相邻房屋的轮廓，但后退形成了一个内敛的立面，围绕着一个最小的庭院，一种秘密花园，为底层提供了一个和平和亲密的环境。

With this project, the studio directed by Italian architect Giuseppe Farris confirms its ability to reflect on the subject of residential design by developing solutions that draw on the vast repertoire of modernity, reconfiguring it to meet the needs of contemporary living.
通过这个项目，意大利建筑师朱塞佩·法里斯（Giuseppe Farris）执导的工作室通过开发利用大量现代性的解决方案，对其进行重新配置以满足当代生活的需求，从而证实了其反思住宅设计主题的能力。

A small residence is inserted with originality among the houses overlooking the Brussel-Scheldt Maritime canal that splits the small town of Humbeek, part of the municipality of Grimbergen, in the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. In emphasizing the relationship with the canal, the project of this house draws upon an original spatial configuration based on the definition of a new relationship between the inside and outside.
在俯瞰比利时弗拉芒-布拉班特省格里姆卑尔根市的亨比克小镇的Brussel-Scheldt海事运河的房屋中间，插入了一座别出心裁的小住宅。在强调与运河的关系时，这座房子的项目借鉴了基于内部和外部之间新关系定义的原始空间配置。

Designed by Studio Farris, Humbeek Canal House was created to substitute a preexisting building and makes the most of the available surface area by respectfully placing itself within the profile defined by the row of residential buildings facing the canal, complying to the surrounding gabled roofscape. But the elegant adaptation to the urban context is enriched by new solutions, which extend the potential of the lot and redefine the conditions of use of the house.
Humbereek运河住宅由Studio Farris设计，旨在取代现有建筑，并通过尊重运河对面的一排住宅建筑的轮廓，充分利用可用的表面面积，符合周围山墙屋顶景观。但新的解决方案丰富了对城市环境的优雅适应，这些解决方案扩展了地块的潜力，并重新定义了房屋的使用条件。

The other houses facing the canal do not exploit the presence of the waterway, denying any opportunity to relate to both the public dimension and the view of outdoor space. The traditional layout of houses in fact has the living quarters on the ground floor, with high windows protected by curtains for privacy. Studio Farris then worked on the volume and distribution of space, emptying part of the original envelope, reversing the program by placing the living area upstairs and the sleeping areas on the ground floor, working on a careful redefinition of the boundaries between indoors and outdoors.
面对运河的其他住宅没有利用水路的存在，拒绝任何与公共维度和室外空间景观相关的机会。传统的住宅布局实际上是将生活区放在一楼，用窗帘保护高窗户，以保护隐私。Studio Farris随后致力于空间的体积和分布，排空了原来的部分，通过将起居区域放在楼上，将睡眠区域放在一楼，重新定义了室内和室外的边界。

If in the rear the house uses the full height allowed, it is on the front that the outline of the building is changed. The building recedes, resulting in an introverted facade that is organized around a new open space created by the volume subtraction. The project by Studio Farris thus determines an unexpected spatial layout consisting of an entrance courtyard on the ground floor, which acts as a filter between the street and the house, matched by a small garden at the back of the house.
如果房子的后部使用了允许的全部高度，则建筑物的轮廓将在前部发生变化。建筑后退，形成了一个内敛的立面，围绕着一个新的开放空间进行组织，该空间是由体积减法创建的。因此，Studio Farris的项目决定了一个意想不到的空间布局，包括一个位于底层的入口庭院，它充当街道和房屋之间的过滤器，并与房屋后面的小花园相匹配。

It is a sort of “Japanese courtyard”, says GiuseppeFarris, recalling the work of Carlo Scarpa that he carefully investigated during his studies at IUAV university in Venice. The idea is that of a small secret garden, to be discovered beyond the gate that separates it from the road along the canal. In the courtyard, a tree introduces a natural feel, a sense of warmth and proportion. The two bedrooms located on the ground floor also benefit from this quiet and intimate condition. One opens directly onto the courtyard, the other overlooks the backyard.
这是一种“日式庭院”，giusepefarris回忆起Carlo Scarpa在威尼斯IUAV大学学习期间仔细研究的作品。这个想法是一个小的秘密花园，在将它与沿着运河的道路分开的大门后面被发现。在庭院中，一棵树带来了一种自然的感觉，一种温暖和比例感。位于一楼的两间卧室也得益于这种安静和亲密的环境。一间直接面向庭院，另一间俯瞰后院。

The courtyards also help to determine a spatial continuity between the ground floor and the upper floor, where the living quarters are arranged. The staircase that can be accessed from the entrance courtyard leads to the upper floor and unfolds adjacent to the entrance courtyard, leading to the discovery of the canal view. At this point, the living room projects and expands to the outside through a terrace that brings air and light inside. The living area continues into a dining room and, having reached the rear of the house, into the kitchen overlooking the second courtyard.
庭院也有助于确定底层和上层之间的空间连续性，其中布置了生活区。可以从入口庭院进入的楼梯通向上层，并在入口庭院附近展开，从而发现运河景观。在这一点上，客厅通过一个露台向外突出并扩展，露台将空气和光线带入室内。生活区继续延伸到餐厅，到达房子后部后，进入厨房，俯瞰第二庭院。

The relationship established between the interiors, the courtyards and the outdoor spaces helps to define an ideal connection between the two floors and to give the entire intervention a spatial continuity that reveals at every turn a new relationship with the outside.
室内、庭院和室外空间之间建立的关系有助于定义两层之间的理想连接，并为整个设计提供空间连续性，从而在每一个角落都显示出与外部的新关系。

Studio Farris Architects recently completed the new Buysse & Partners Headquarters as a renovation of an entire floor of the BP Building in Antwerp, Belgium, a modernist icon designed by Leon Stynen in 1963. The studio is also finalizing a project for the regeneration of an entire block in the center of Zottegen and a large residential and public program in Anderlecht.
Studio Farris Architects最近完成了新的Buysse&Partners总部，这是对比利时安特卫普BP大厦（BP Building）一整层的翻新，这是一座现代主义建筑，由莱昂·斯蒂宁（Leon Stynen）于1963年设计。该工作室还正在完成一个项目，以重建Zottegen市中心的整个街区，以及安德莱赫特的一个大型住宅和公共项目。

Data and credits of the project
Project name       Canal House Humbeek
Location           Humbeek (Belgium)
Architect           Studio Farris
Client             Private
Contractor         KLOBO
Schedule           Schematic design start: Nov 2015
Construction completion: Feb 2020
Finishes and furniture completion: Jan 2022
Project data        lot size: 89 square meters
ground floor area: 73 square meters
upper floor area: 62 square meters
Materials          Facade: white bricks (Desimpel)
Windows: Black aluminium
Floors at upper level: wood
Floors at ground level: ceramic tiles
Photographs        Koen Van Damme
Martino Pietropoli

STUDIO FARRIS. CANAL HOUSE HUMBEEK.

THE DOMESTIC SPACE IS ORGANIZED

AROUND A SECRET GARDEN.

STUDIO FARRIS. HUMBEEK运河住宅.

家庭空间围绕一个秘密花园进行组织。

The Canal House was designed by Studio Farris to overlook the Brussel-Scheldt Maritime canal in the Belgian town of Humbeek. This single-family residence successfully develops a series of spatial mediation devices between the indoor and outdoor environments.
运河住宅由Studio Farris设计，可以俯瞰比利时Humbeek镇的布鲁塞尔-斯海尔特海上运河。这个独栋住宅成功地开发了一系列室内和室外环境之间的空间中介装置。

The volume of the Canal House respects the profile of the adjacent houses, but recedes to form an introverted façade that is articulated around a minimal courtyard, a sort of secret garden that offers a condition of peace and intimacy to the ground floor.
运河住宅的体量尊重相邻房屋的轮廓，但后退形成了一个内敛的立面，围绕着一个最小的庭院，一种秘密花园，为底层提供了一个和平和亲密的环境。

With this project, the studio directed by Italian architect Giuseppe Farris confirms its ability to reflect on the subject of residential design by developing solutions that draw on the vast repertoire of modernity, reconfiguring it to meet the needs of contemporary living.
通过这个项目，意大利建筑师朱塞佩·法里斯（Giuseppe Farris）执导的工作室通过开发利用大量现代性的解决方案，对其进行重新配置以满足当代生活的需求，从而证实了其反思住宅设计主题的能力。

A small residence is inserted with originality among the houses overlooking the Brussel-Scheldt Maritime canal that splits the small town of Humbeek, part of the municipality of Grimbergen, in the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. In emphasizing the relationship with the canal, the project of this house draws upon an original spatial configuration based on the definition of a new relationship between the inside and outside.
在俯瞰比利时弗拉芒-布拉班特省格里姆卑尔根市的亨比克小镇的Brussel-Scheldt海事运河的房屋中间，插入了一座别出心裁的小住宅。在强调与运河的关系时，这座房子的项目借鉴了基于内部和外部之间新关系定义的原始空间配置。

Designed by Studio Farris, Humbeek Canal House was created to substitute a preexisting building and makes the most of the available surface area by respectfully placing itself within the profile defined by the row of residential buildings facing the canal, complying to the surrounding gabled roofscape. But the elegant adaptation to the urban context is enriched by new solutions, which extend the potential of the lot and redefine the conditions of use of the house.
Humbereek运河住宅由Studio Farris设计，旨在取代现有建筑，并通过尊重运河对面的一排住宅建筑的轮廓，充分利用可用的表面面积，符合周围山墙屋顶景观。但新的解决方案丰富了对城市环境的优雅适应，这些解决方案扩展了地块的潜力，并重新定义了房屋的使用条件。

The other houses facing the canal do not exploit the presence of the waterway, denying any opportunity to relate to both the public dimension and the view of outdoor space. The traditional layout of houses in fact has the living quarters on the ground floor, with high windows protected by curtains for privacy. Studio Farris then worked on the volume and distribution of space, emptying part of the original envelope, reversing the program by placing the living area upstairs and the sleeping areas on the ground floor, working on a careful redefinition of the boundaries between indoors and outdoors.
面对运河的其他住宅没有利用水路的存在，拒绝任何与公共维度和室外空间景观相关的机会。传统的住宅布局实际上是将生活区放在一楼，用窗帘保护高窗户，以保护隐私。Studio Farris随后致力于空间的体积和分布，排空了原来的部分，通过将起居区域放在楼上，将睡眠区域放在一楼，重新定义了室内和室外的边界。

If in the rear the house uses the full height allowed, it is on the front that the outline of the building is changed. The building recedes, resulting in an introverted facade that is organized around a new open space created by the volume subtraction. The project by Studio Farris thus determines an unexpected spatial layout consisting of an entrance courtyard on the ground floor, which acts as a filter between the street and the house, matched by a small garden at the back of the house.
如果房子的后部使用了允许的全部高度，则建筑物的轮廓将在前部发生变化。建筑后退，形成了一个内敛的立面，围绕着一个新的开放空间进行组织，该空间是由体积减法创建的。因此，Studio Farris的项目决定了一个意想不到的空间布局，包括一个位于底层的入口庭院，它充当街道和房屋之间的过滤器，并与房屋后面的小花园相匹配。

It is a sort of “Japanese courtyard”, says GiuseppeFarris, recalling the work of Carlo Scarpa that he carefully investigated during his studies at IUAV university in Venice. The idea is that of a small secret garden, to be discovered beyond the gate that separates it from the road along the canal. In the courtyard, a tree introduces a natural feel, a sense of warmth and proportion. The two bedrooms located on the ground floor also benefit from this quiet and intimate condition. One opens directly onto the courtyard, the other overlooks the backyard.
这是一种“日式庭院”，giusepefarris回忆起Carlo Scarpa在威尼斯IUAV大学学习期间仔细研究的作品。这个想法是一个小的秘密花园，在将它与沿着运河的道路分开的大门后面被发现。在庭院中，一棵树带来了一种自然的感觉，一种温暖和比例感。位于一楼的两间卧室也得益于这种安静和亲密的环境。一间直接面向庭院，另一间俯瞰后院。

The courtyards also help to determine a spatial continuity between the ground floor and the upper floor, where the living quarters are arranged. The staircase that can be accessed from the entrance courtyard leads to the upper floor and unfolds adjacent to the entrance courtyard, leading to the discovery of the canal view. At this point, the living room projects and expands to the outside through a terrace that brings air and light inside. The living area continues into a dining room and, having reached the rear of the house, into the kitchen overlooking the second courtyard.
庭院也有助于确定底层和上层之间的空间连续性，其中布置了生活区。可以从入口庭院进入的楼梯通向上层，并在入口庭院附近展开，从而发现运河景观。在这一点上，客厅通过一个露台向外突出并扩展，露台将空气和光线带入室内。生活区继续延伸到餐厅，到达房子后部后，进入厨房，俯瞰第二庭院。

The relationship established between the interiors, the courtyards and the outdoor spaces helps to define an ideal connection between the two floors and to give the entire intervention a spatial continuity that reveals at every turn a new relationship with the outside.
室内、庭院和室外空间之间建立的关系有助于定义两层之间的理想连接，并为整个设计提供空间连续性，从而在每一个角落都显示出与外部的新关系。

Studio Farris Architects recently completed the new Buysse & Partners Headquarters as a renovation of an entire floor of the BP Building in Antwerp, Belgium, a modernist icon designed by Leon Stynen in 1963. The studio is also finalizing a project for the regeneration of an entire block in the center of Zottegen and a large residential and public program in Anderlecht.
Studio Farris Architects最近完成了新的Buysse&Partners总部，这是对比利时安特卫普BP大厦（BP Building）一整层的翻新，这是一座现代主义建筑，由莱昂·斯蒂宁（Leon Stynen）于1963年设计。该工作室还正在完成一个项目，以重建Zottegen市中心的整个街区，以及安德莱赫特的一个大型住宅和公共项目。

Data and credits of the project
Project name       Canal House Humbeek
Location           Humbeek (Belgium)
Architect           Studio Farris
Client             Private
Contractor         KLOBO
Schedule           Schematic design start: Nov 2015
Construction completion: Feb 2020
Finishes and furniture completion: Jan 2022
Project data        lot size: 89 square meters
ground floor area: 73 square meters
upper floor area: 62 square meters
Materials          Facade: white bricks (Desimpel)
Windows: Black aluminium
Floors at upper level: wood
Floors at ground level: ceramic tiles
Photographs        Koen Van Damme
Martino Pietropoli