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The property, totalling over 400 m<sup>2<\/sup>, is spread over two levels. The service areas, including the domestic staff\u2019s flat, are situated in the basement and are connected to the ground floor by a spiral staircase that winds around a stainless steel column. On the ground floor, the architect has arranged the bedrooms at either end of the house. To the west, the two children\u2019s bedrooms and the dressing room are adjacent to the bathroom and the kitchen. To the east, the master bedroom is situated next to a bathroom, a dressing room and a large library. In the centre, the spacious living room opens out onto a generous south-facing terrace. As in the Repriels house, Vandenhove emphasises the raw character of the materials, leaving the brick and concrete exposed. Here, however, concrete takes on a more assertive role, particularly in the ceilings composed of prefabricated elements. Similarly, the concrete columns, with their prominent formwork marks, bear witness to the architect\u2019s evolving thinking on the column. This reflection is even more evident in the treatment of the fa\u00e7ade, where, once again, the columns form a composition that sees the return of the flat roof. As Bart Verschaffel points out: \u201cColumns and piers do not support a heavy roof, but rather construct the fa\u00e7ade, with a prefabricated concrete cladding and a classical projection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":451,"template":"","collection_type":[31],"class_list":["post-8751","collection","type-collection","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","collection_type-archives-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thonon House - Fondation Jeanne Charles Vandenhove<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fondationvandenhove.be\/en\/collection\/maison-thonon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thonon House - Fondation Jeanne Charles Vandenhove\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Thonon house bears witness to both the continuities and the shifts in the architect\u2019s approach to the single-family home. 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