{"id":234269,"date":"2026-01-12T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234269\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:20:10","slug":"felt-updates-midc-entury-bungalow-in-ghent-with-blue-tiled-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234269\/","title":{"rendered":"Felt updates midc-entury bungalow in Ghent with blue-tiled tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belgian architecture studio Felt has renovated a mid-century home<\/a> in Ghent<\/a>, adding an entrance space and staircase within a “compact tower” clad in blue ceramic<\/a> tiles.<\/p>\n

The renovation<\/a>, named Dani\u00ebl, required Felt<\/a> to rework the 315-square-metre bungalow<\/a> to better cater to family life, while still maintaining the mid-century character of its rectilinear, white-painted brick structure.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorFelt has renovated a mid-century bungalow in Ghent<\/p>\n

Felt focused its efforts on an awkward “circulation knot” at the centre of the home’s T-shaped plan, where its single-storey living wing abuts a split-level bedroom volume in what was formerly a cramped entrance area.<\/p>\n

To open up this space, the studio created a “compact tower” at the home’s centre clad in blue ceramic tiles, which contains an ochre-coloured staircase and high-level windows.<\/p>\n

\"GardenA tower clad in blue ceramic tiles was added to the home<\/p>\n

“Both spatially and visually, the project culminates in the central entrance space,” the studio told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We transformed the existing split-level condition into a clearly articulated vertical node \u2013 a compact tower that anchors circulation, draws zenithal light deep into the plan, and gives spatial presence to what was previously a rather hidden transition,” it added.<\/p>\n

“By marking this location with the new blue-tiled volume, the entrance gains presence, both within the house and towards the street.”<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorIts T-shaped plan was rearranged for improved circulation<\/p>\n

The lower volume of Dani\u00ebl takes advantage of its position between two gardens. Glass doors framed in rust-coloured aluminium open onto two patios on either side of a single large living, dining and kitchen area.<\/p>\n

Internally, a pale-toned cement floor creates a sense of continuity with these patios and helps to maximise the feeling of light in the relatively low-lying space, accompanied by ceilings lined in cedar planks.<\/p>\n

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Within the adjacent split-level volume, a lower level contains storage and facility spaces and can be accessed directly from the street via a section of the former driveway, which was reduced, unpaved and updated with bicycle storage.<\/p>\n

On the upper level, Dani\u00ebl’s bedrooms are finished with timber-lined walls and green linoleum floors, to create an atmosphere that the studio describes as “calm and tactile”.<\/p>\n

\"StaircaseThere is an ochre-coloured staircase<\/p>\n

“Interior material choices are informed by a contemporary reinterpretation of a classic mid-century palette,” explained the studio.<\/p>\n

“Externally, the fa\u00e7ades were renovated and the original timber windows replaced by rust-coloured aluminium frames, echoing the original materiality while offering contemporary performance,” it added.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorThe bedrooms are finished with timber-lined walls<\/p>\n

Based in Ghent, Felt was founded in 2014 by Jasper Stevens and Karel Verstraeten.<\/p>\n

Other residential projects in Ghent recently featured on Dezeen include an extension by Atelier Avondzon and Macadam Atelier<\/a> that incorporated a sawtooth roof and an infill home by Delmulle Delmulle Architecten with a glass-brick facade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Stijn Bollaert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgian architecture studio Felt has renovated a mid-century home in Ghent, adding an entrance space and staircase within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,127146,15311,127145,12986,438,146,22774,446,85,46,31637,17148,448,449],"class_list":{"0":"post-234269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-belgian-houses","13":"tag-belgium","14":"tag-bungalows","15":"tag-ceramics","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-ghent","19":"tag-houses","20":"tag-il","21":"tag-israel","22":"tag-mid-century-renovations","23":"tag-renovations","24":"tag-sectionall","25":"tag-sectionarchitecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}