As part of its renovation of a small terraced house in Ghent, Belgian architects Fragmenture inserted a central triangular volume that houses the kitchen, laundry and storage spaces.
The client's brief called for the transformation of a dark and cramped 90-square-metre terraced house in the Belgian city into a playful, bright and open-plan home.
To do this, local architects Fragmenture removed all of the original partition walls and relocated the bathroom to the first floor.
为了更好地扩建现有空间，建筑师将房子后面的旧建筑拆掉了。
三角形体量被装进房间的中间位置，它包括厨房、楼梯和分布在各个面的三个储藏空间。
The old outbuildings at the back of the house were also removed to make way for a new compact house extension.
A triangular volume inserted into the centre of the ground floor houses the kitchen, stairs and storage on each of its three sides.
三角形体量的中心位置设置有洗衣房和存物空间。
建筑内部设置有用餐区，还有一个带水槽的厨房操作区，隔着落地玻璃推拉门与后面的花园遥相呼应。
A hidden storage space and laundry room can be found within the triangle's central "dark zone".
A dining area and small kitchen island with a sink face the rear garden through floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors.
圆形的天窗为一楼的用餐区和厨房提供了天然采光。
在房子的前面，起居室与开放式厨房、餐厅之间由一个定制的橱柜隔开，柜子里面有隐蔽的开放式储存空间。
dome-shaped skylights provide the ground floor dining area and kitchen with zenithal light.
At the front of the house, also on the ground floor, the living room is separated from the open-plan kitchen and dining room by a custom-made cabinet that incorporates concealed and open storage.
上部空间呈环状布局，这样从卧室等房间可以直接进入浴室。
房子内的暖色木材和水磨石地板，与洁白的家具和穿孔钢板形成鲜明的对比。营造出“优雅的氛围”。
Upstairs a circular layout means that the bathroom can be accessed from both the bedroom and landing area.
The architecture firm contrasted the house's warm coloured wood and terrazzo flooring with clean white furniture and perforated steel to create what it calls "an elegant material contrast".
In a similar residential project by Japanese architecture studio Chop + Archi, triangular lightwells were cut into a house in Tokyo to make use of "dead space".
Photography is by Dennis De Smet.
