Alain Hinant Transforms an Old Belgian Laundry Building into a Brilliant Daylit Home

The renovation of a former laundry building into a single family home is not only a sustainable <a href="http://inhabitat.com/old-coal-mine-complex-in-poland-to-be-reconfigured-into-a-science-and-art-center/">adaptive reuse</a> of an existing building, but it also became an art piece for artist <a href="http://www.jeanglibert.com/">Jean Gilbert</a>. Designed by French Architect Alain Hinant, this building in the suburb of Uccle in Brussels, Belgium is simple and ordinary, but a slice of paradise in an urban jungle.

The black paint is glossy and literally helps to expand the sense of space through its mirror-like appearance.

Jean Gilbert’s black and blue painted surfaces create a virtual volume throughout the building’s interior.

Every layer of the home is engaged by the paint, from the kitchen and living spaces of the ground floor to the sleeping and study rooms of the top floors.

Skylights above the staircase allow for plenty of natural daylight to flood into the space.

The renovations tied the three floors together and allowed for the new single family open to unravel around a central staircase.

The 120 square-meter, three-story laundry building used to serve the three neighboring houses in Uccle.

Windows at the interior of the building also provide natural daylight and views of the small garden paradise behind the building.

Though Architect Alain Hinant designed the renovation of this urban intervention, the owners performed most of the work themselves.

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