In the exceptional, wooded context along the banks of the Leie, this project seeks a subtle anchoring in the landscape. The architecture departs from the idea of merging with its surroundings.

The dwelling is placed on an elevated plinth, a considered intervention driven by the flood-prone nature of the plot. This plinth lifts the building above ground level and creates a safe, clear base upon which the architecture unfolds.

At ground floor level, a soft, green base layer manifests itself. This layer is deliberately conceived as a fragmented, tactile composition that references the verticality and layering of the surrounding tree trunks. Through a subtle attunement of colour and materiality, this base dissolves into the forest and merges with its context.

In contrast stands the light-coloured, concrete upper volume. This volume reads as a single, calm and abstract gesture that rises above the more earthly, fine-grained base. The tension between the tactile, natural lower structure and the clear, monolithic volume forms the core of the architectural concept.

House no. 34 is thus a layered architecture that balances between integration and expression, between tactility and abstraction — a building that does not stand apart from its surroundings, but belongs to them as a matter of course.