Interiors, this is Belgium

tcctTirry Cindy and Tom Callebaut

Before visiting it was created an atmosphere of introduction to space where I could not imagine how would continue the tour. Every movement assumed additional information that we would create a personal image of what we would see inside; each one different and safer than any similarly to what we would find us.

They handled the chapel space as a metaphor for the way the institute works with people: transforming the internal disorder into an infrastructure which gives peace, happiness and reflection.

All these stories are hidden behind white panels so that the space can become a white canvas for the mind or one filled with stories and explanations. The white space as an initiation for the future, the stories as inspiration from the past.

Space influences us so automatically upon entering we were silent, apart from amazement, so the space transmitted. The first thing we do is to find a comfortable position or place place to accommodate without moving too far to see around us.

White sand as floor-covering acts as an isolating material and a ritual element when entering the space

This chapel really invites you to be quite, reflect, interact and take initiative.

Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Summer house

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Sign of use

Human scale

Henry Van de Velde

Boekentoren

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Overall space

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Human scale

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Marie José Van Hee Van Poele-Van Hielen

Detail

Human scale

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Overall space

It was a great opportunity for our group to have a subject like this. I think that is the subject that opens our eyes to the world to which we intend to dedicate in the future. It is the union between what we project in college and a real project. especially because we had known the people behind these projects and understand better the project and its essence. I think it is an intermediate step between the school and the professional world. It makes us change our method of observation, because we will not be in the same place anymore, and we can not repeat the explanation of the project that the designer has given us. In addition thanks to photography we got look at what we had never noticed without having to take pictures Discover a different European design that we may know Also in all interior design not only see that we could see online or in a magazine, we can see that inner lives and how it relates to people, and how to relate to the outside and changes.

It is a really necessary this subject not only for the Erasmus group also for all students.

Thank you Paula González Arranz