Narrow House / Bassam El-Okeily

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© Bassam El-Okeily. Photographed by Tim van de Velde

Amidst a block of more traditional houses in Bilzen, Brussels-based Bassam El-Okeily, in collaboration with Karla Menten, has squeezed a contemporary three storey residence. From the street, the project’s vastly unique façade screams for attention, yet the crazed internal geometry is contained by a flat piece of glass – a move that allows the project to assimilate better into its context. In the evening time, the façade is lit in different colors allowing the house to act as “a pubic light sculpture by night.”

More about the residence after the break.

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Cite: Karen Cilento. "Narrow House / Bassam El-Okeily" 06 Nov 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/87368/narrow-house-bassam-el-okeily> ISSN 0719-8884

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