Contemporary single-family house in Beersel

In Beersel, on the outskirts of Brussels, architecture firm STARC designed a contemporary single-family house of approximately 380 m² that responds thoughtfully to its suburban residential context. The building adopts the local vernacular of a two-storey volume under a pitched roof while asserting a distinctly contemporary architectural language. Its clear setback from the street creates a planted strip that mediates between the public realm and the inhabited volume, while a low, horizontal garage block articulates as a lateral projection to balance the overall composition.

Materiality is the defining gesture of the project. Dark red brick laid in an irregular bond grounds the house in local building tradition, giving the surface a tactile depth that is especially responsive to raking natural light. Against this warm, rough material, flat anthracite panels clad the garage volume and mark the entrance zone with a continuous canopy. The dialogue between the massive and the thin, the warm and the dark, gives structure to the façade without resorting to ornament.

Glazing is handled with restraint: openings facing the street are few but generously proportioned, adopting vertical formats that punctuate the brickwork and draw light deep into the interior. Slender anthracite-framed profiles maintain chromatic continuity across all dark elements, ensuring coherence despite the duality of materials. Completed in 2021, this new-build residential project in the Brussels periphery reflects STARC's contextual and material-driven approach to architecture in Belgium.

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