Portfolio Anouk Aerts Engineer Architect
Content Curriculum Vitae Master of science in engineering: architecture De Gestapelde Villa Anouk Aerts Roosbeek, 2016 Optopping MTM-BOKU Anouk Aerts and Michiel Hubin Heverlee, 2016 Convention Centre Anouk Aerts, Robin Portier and Stijn Van der Putten Leuven, 2015 Forum Navis Anouk Aerts and Robin Portier Brussels, 2014 Maggie’s Centre Anouk Aerts Leuven, 2014
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Curriculum Vitae
Personalia
Name:
Anouk Aerts
Ernest Claesstraat 37 2260 Westerlo Belg Nationality: Turnhout Birth place: 22 july 1993 Birth date: Marital status: single Driving license: B Adress:
Experience
Student job Colruyt Geel January until October 2011
Trainee Architectuurstudio Herman Herzberger September until October 2014 Trainee Studio Plus Architecten September until October 2015
anouk.aerts@student.kuleuven.be E-mail: Student job Colruyt Leuven +32493 10 18 50 Phone number: September until December 2016 Education
Skills
Languages
Blind typing Voortkapel, May 2013
ArchiCAD: Very good AutoCAD: Good Revit: Basic Cinema4D: Good Rhinosceros: Basic Grasshopper: Basic Sketchup: Very good
Flemisch: English: French: Character
Music and transverse flute Urban Music academy for music, word en dance Geel, June 2006 Urban Music academy for music, word en dance Geel, June 2009 Art and drawing Municipal drawingschool, Westerlo, 2003 Bachelor of Science in engineering: architecture KULeuven, September 2014
Master of Science in engineering: architecture with distinction
KULeuven, September 2016
Photoshop: Indesign: Illustrator: Microsoft Office:
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native language very good basic
Motivated Studious Flexible Creative Social Entrepreneurial Conscientiously Hard worker
Hobby and interests
Art Music Architecture
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De Gestapelde Villa
De Gestapelde Villa,
kwalitatief verdichtingsinstrument voor de Vlaamse lintbebouwing Ontwerpend onderzoek en case study van dorpskern Roosbeek (urbanism + residential) 2015-2016
Anouk Aerts Thesis submitted to obtain the degree of Master of Science in engineering: architecture Promotor: Prof. Leo Van Broeck Co-promotor: Dr. Wouter Bervoets Assessors: Barbara Oelbrandt and Hugo Vanderstadt
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PROBLEMATIC IN TERMS OF...
ECONOMY ECOLOGY
VERDICHT EN SLIM RUIMTEGEBRUIK QUALITATIVE DENSIFICATION OF PLACES WITH POTENTIAL
AUTONOMY
EFFICIENT MOBILITY AS CONNECTION BETWEEN PLACES
MOBILITY
DILUTION AND EXTINGUISHMENT OF PLACES WITHOUT POTENTIAL
ENVIRONMENT
INSTRUMENTS
“GESTAPELDE VILLA”
RELAX
LIVE
WORK
INTEGRATION-ORIENTED CITY DEVELOPMENT 1 MILE 1/4 MILE
TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
5 MIN. WALK 5 MIN. BIKE RIDE
TRANSFER DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS
De Gestapelde Villa An average Flemish family wishes to live in their self-constructed dream house in an healthy green environment with a garden for the kids to play. A mishmash of dream houses scattered throughout Flanders illustrates this characteristic dream. Land gets consumed at high rate, which has become harmful for numerous reasons, among which sustainability is a major one.
important in its design. They can be met in countless ways, two alternative designs illustrated the concept. The application of the combination with the other three instruments on a larger scale has led to concentration and (over-)densification in this case. An existing business area was revaluated to be the motor for phased transformation of the center.
This master thesis searches an alternative way of living that combines the qualities of scattered rural living with those of compact urban living: “de gestapelde villa”. It further examines how this alternative could be introduced in the existing Flemish context.
A conclusion from all this could be that there can be some qualities left in the centers of villages and towns and these should be used as a strength to set the transformation in motion and introduce an alternative way of living. Therefor it is important to make an intensive study of each case on its own. The fact that, in this case, excessive densification was possible confirms that there is enough space to make the necessary concentration work. But, most importantly, it should be stressed that any transformation should be phased over decades. This excess should not at all insinuate tabula rasa. “De gestapelde villa” as one qualitative instrument for densification cannot be fixed by a set of design rules, it should remind architects what is important and inspire them to be innovative.
Through an intense study of literature it was possible to summarize the motives that led to the characteristic land use in Flanders today, the severity of this land use and the main ambitions to reorganize. For the realization of these ambitions four instruments, that could contribute, are studied more extensive. Next, a combi of these instruments in practice is studied by a design for a specific Flemish case. The thesis presents “de gestapelde villa” as a qualitative instrument for densification. Eight characteristics have been derived to emphasize what should be considered
One should not have to choose between the qualities of rural or urban life, it is possible to enjoy both.
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Existing spatial structure. Built space - Natural space - Mobility - Amenities.
Existing Spatial Structure The village Roosbeek is part of Boutersem, a municipality located roughly in the middle between Leuven and Tienen in Vlaams-Brabant. The village has about 1840 inhabitants.
Built space A moonshaped core is noticeable in the entanglement of all ribbon-like developed tissue. Roosbeek exists mainly out of an organic building pattern with detached houses and an irregular alignment. West of the center exists one alien allocation, Valkenberg, with a strong orthogonal grid structure from the 1960s-‘70s. The Leuvensesteenweg is characterised by the typical landscape along this kind of road.
Roosbeek, existing situation.
Natural space In the west, two green inner areas are recognizable. These are mainly consumed by gardens. The Kleine Beek flows through the middle bordered by some leftover pieces of a former valley.
Mobility Since the former rail station, south-east at the edge of the core village, is closed, access by train isn’t possible anymore. Public transport is completely organised by bus. Amenities Roosbeek contains a primary school, a playground, a local food shop and few daycare centers in less than 400m of the historical center. Within this distance there are also several health facilities, a parish hall, a sport center and an OCMW. The local business area, west of the village, can be seen as potential employment and the farmland, in the south, can serve for local food production.
Desired spatial structure. Built space - Natural space - Mobility - Amenities.
Desired Spatial Structure Built space Roosbeek becomes a Mont Saint Michel of neighborhoods according to the required density. This equals high-rise buildings in the middle followed by building blocks, followed by terraced housing followed by maybe a little bit detached housing at the very end of the core village. These neighborhoods won’t be separate entities that split up the village even more, but they will complement each other and offer inhabitants a range of possibilities. Natural space The Kleine Beek valley gets recovered and extended. The valley becomes a fresh green ribbon of free nature and recreation extended through the village. It will be a structural element or a gentle border to the different neighborhoods, so each can develop in its own specific way.
Roosbeek, new situation.
Mobility The increase in population will create the support for a new rail station southwards,
in the middle of the railway. It becomes a new center that fuses with the historical one into a dipole of high density. The Leuvensesteenweg will be designed as ‘boulevard’, a series of squares. The change in finishing and other elements will keep car drivers alert. A green lane divides the ‘boulevard’ in two. This way residents have to check only one way of the road before crossing. On this lane bus stops with nice places to rest are organised.
Amenities Employment has to be spread from the business area towards the station. This again creates a second dipole. Retail will be a part of the street image again and flexible workplaces near the dwelling will offer an alternative for daily car use. Also, the existing amenities and recreation have to be extended. Each neighborhood must offer the basics. Shopping occasions and creative enterprises will revive the streets. This way all will be strategically spread and different activities and people will function and meet in the same public space.
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Cultural center, ground floor. Business area and terraced housing.
Neighborhood of business and terraced housing
The construction of the large warehouse in the middle is renovated into a cultural center. Roosbeek needed a place for The business area is rethought into a new community activities besides one small concept. The compagnies are shackled as parish house. if it were terraced houses in a street. The warehouses of an existing supplier will North of the building, three auditoria be kept in use for the supply of the (yellow) can be used for different activities, companies according to a completely new but they can also be combined into routine: the trucks will drive towards the a bigger auditorium. The remarkable most southern warehouse of the supplier form contributes to the overall spatial for loading and unloading; next, the load experience of the building. The rectangular gets subdivided by forklift trucks over a path building (pink) in the east can be used behind the companies on the adjacent as school to moderate the lack of space parcels. in the existing primary school. The classrooms can be used for various after-school
activities. A gym and cafeteria are located southwest. Both can be used at all times. The space in between should be furnished as a lounge and maybe augmented with a library. On the first floor, a reception room (white) gives access to the three auditoria from above. The whole business area is surrounded by terraced housing with a mean density of 50 dwellings per hectare. The ‘boulevard’ that goes through the middle can be seen as a large inner plaza that gathers the whole neighborhood into one coherent place. Cultural center, first floor.
Ref. Alberyt Heijn, Van Baerlestraat, Amsterdam.
Station center with building blocks and towers.
Construction of a stacked parking.
Further towards the station the neighbor- none of the future dwellings has a facade hood of terraced houses transforms into facing north. one with open building blocks. Its density goes up to 100 dwellings per hectare. On a central plaza, the dipole between the two centers is characterized by several Car traffic is not allowed here. Stacked towers. For their design, existing paths parking is provided along the ‘boulevard’. were connected, crisscross over the plaza. These parking constructions have a width Out of the remaining space, the basic of about 20.5 m in order to fit two rows outlines of the towers are derived based of parking lots on each story. On the on lines of sight: not one tower blocks any outside, a stacked parking is equipped other’s sight. The plinth of these towers is with a ramp that is destructible, in order augmented with the necessary amenities to make reconversion into dwellings underneath some triangular slopes. With possible. It won’t be possible to create the valley they structure the open space dwellings with a through room, but all between the towers. On these slopes stacked parking is oriented in a way that people can meet, sunbathe or picnic.
Lines of sight for different towers.
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North-east facade.
Section.
Inner atmosphere.
South-east facade.
Level 0.
The building block
Level 1, 3 and 5.
For the following floors, two schemes alter each other. Both contain a three meters wide walkway. Residents enter their home through these walkways. There will be no arrival through dark shafts and corridors. Instead, this concept creates social space. The street in the air can be a children’s playground and a neighbors’ meetingspot again.
The building block is located alongside the Leuvensesteenweg. The ground floor of the northern part, bordering this road, is equipped with small shops and creative enterprises. The two adjacent parts are elevated 90cm to provide the dwellings, bordering the collective garden in the middle, with a private terrace. This also reduces the difference in height to reach Along such a walkway, all dwellings are accompanied by a royal garden. It’s like the bicycle storage underneath. a suburban street, but safe, without cars and elevated in the air.
Level 2 and 4.
With the altering of the schemes comes the altering of walkways. This way, the entrance of natural light is largely ensured, dark corners get avoided and the facade gets a vibrant appearance by a checkerboard pattern of “gestapelde villa’s” in the two side parts of the building.
Level -1, bicycle parking.
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Outside walkway.
Outside walkway, middle with a view.
Section.
South facade
North-east facade.
Level 0, healthy eat- and drink occasions - vertical circulation - entrance residents Level 1. Level 10.
The tower
is, for each resident, the only connection children to play without getting hit by a between elevator and dwelling. This way, car and the garden gives a wide view on a The tower is located behind the station at it can stimulate spontaneous encounters vibrant village instead of a view on a fence. a central square. Its plinth is accordingly between different households. On the fifth and the ninth floor, the tower equipped with places that offer healthier fast food and drinks. The main entrance The tower splits open to leave a view from recedes to create a large collective garden. for residents is located on the north side. the central walkway towards the village. Next, from the tenth floor, the tower gets Here’s also an immediate access to their On these floors, the dwellings are rather divided in two luxurious villa-dwellings for bicycle storage. An extended elevator shaft small to meet the needs of the smaller composed households, couples that share households and elderly that start to a dwelling, etcetera. The “gestapelde villa’s” makes it possible for people to directly dominate demographically. Young starters cross each other to equip each dwelling arrive at their home-floor. can also reside here. The “gestapelde villa” with a space and garden of double height The following four floors, five dwellings are allows living opposite to each other, along which offers the feeling of sitting in a organized alongside an outdoor walkway a street and having a nice private garden. veranda on the country side, but with an with a width of three meters. This walkway Only, the street allows people to meet and impressive view on the village.
Level -1, bicycle parking.
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Optopping MTM-BOKU
Optopping MTM-BOKU (educational) Heverlee, december 2016 Anouk Aerts and Michiel Hubin Mentors: Staf Roels and Joost Ruland
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Optopping MTM-BOKU
South-west facade.
Above the existing connection between MTM and BOKU, the KULeuven wanted an optopping to extend the university facilities. The design aimed for a minimum weight and self supporting structure that wouldn’t aggravate more than only the exterior walls. This structure also needed to add a contemporary layer contrasting with the existing ones. The interaction created between old and new, a patchwork were they melt into each other, was very important.
North-east facade.
The result was a 3D steel, triangular truss structure, desinged as curtain wall, almost like Blob architecture. It suggests a voile over the building. The distinction between old and new gets withdrew from the eye. The slates attached as exterior finishing make the optopping blend in between both buildings.
An auditory for 150 men claimed a central place in the design. An extensive search for optimization resulted in a box-in-box principle and gave it its characteristic form. The other functions are organized around the auditory to insinuate a ‘promenade’. Therefor it needed to be steep enough for people passing under it. The auditory became the core underneath the light steel structure as a voile over the connection between both buildings.
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Auditorium for 150 people, ca. 140 m², space for one person: 90 cm x 60 cm, seats: 65 x 45 cm.
Ref. steepness. Lamot – Brouwgebouw, Mechelen, 2000 51N4E Space Producers and Voet-Theuns Architecten.
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Auditorium, design research, lines of sight. Ref. Ernst and Peter Neufert Architects’ Data.
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Level 3.
Level 4.
Cross section.
Longitudinal section.
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Exhibition room.
Exhibition room.
Entrance BOKU.
Entrance MTM through pantry.
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Convention Centre
Convention Centre (Horeca) May 2015 Anouk Aerts, Robin Portier and Stijn Van der Putten Mentors: Els Claessens and Jan Vermeulen
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Convention Centre
REGA institute at 1,25 m.
What used to be beautiful.
Stain of patched masonry.
The waste of space in Flanders makes renovation become especially relevant these days. This project handles the renovation and reconversion of the former Institute for Bacteriology into a hotel with brasserie and congress facilities.
Underneath this messy appearance some architectural characteristics are visible: a T-shaped footprint, a strong rhythm and horizontal articulation, a monumental front with colored masonry and an austere back with traditional masonry cross bond and a structure subdivided in 12 bays. There’s a nod in the left wing that goes against the formal logic insinuated by the T-shaped footprint. This wing is also the most damaged. At the ground floor its facade shows a stain of patched masonry with an inappropriate modern window in the middle of it, a reminder of a former wintergarden.
Looking at the building.
Vacancy and several rebuildings made the Institute look dilapidated. The REGAinstitute built at 1,25m from the facade recalls the intention to demolish it. Renovation becomes a real challenge.
Horizotal articulation and subdivision in 12 bays.
That was vital to this design. It strives recovery: not mere restore this building to its original glory, but complete, add and adapt it to contemporary everyday life with respect for the original design. This implied a continuous search for historical information and extensive assessment of the current state to find the most suited intervention.
T-shaped footprint.
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Ground floor, removed - preserved.
Conceptual sketches. Removed-preserved-renewed. (cRobin Portier).
Ground floor, renewed - preserved.
Study material, removed - renewed.
The aim became to introduce a, according to our interpretation, formal logic that was insinuated, but not yet there. This resulted in three main interventions. One, the left wing gets totally dismantled and replaced by one with a rectified back facade to restore the symmetry of the T-shape. The whole ground floor of this wing becomes a “winter-garden� that serves as foyer. This way it feels like the garden continues inside the building. Slats attached to the curtain wall make the necessary trans space that strengthens this feeling.
Two, the wing to the right of the auditory gets broken open to become a gallery. This way the outdoor garden becomes accessible for visitors. Here the slats are used as the bearing structure of the covering of the gallery, the stairs towards the garden and those to the next floor. Three, the chaos of stairs in the middle of the building get replaced by circulation mostly serving the brasserie in the rear building. Slats are used again to create a covered entrance.
The extra layer added to the building, distinguised by precise details, is a completion maintaining the characteristic esthetics of the building. Each space has its own character and of course the original atmosphere is kept as much as possible.
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Level 0.
Gallery. (cRobin Portier).
Level 1.
Foyer. (cRobin Portier).
Conference room. (cRobin Portier).
Level 2.
Brasserie. (cRobin Portier).
Roof.
Breakfast room. (cRobin Portier).
North facade. (cRobin Portier).
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Section A.
Section B.
Section C.
Section E.
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Forum Navis
Forum Navis (urbanism + residential) May 2014 Anouk Aerts and Robin Portier (Masterplan Michiel Hubin and Lise Bibert) Mentors: Goedele Desmet and Tom Vermeylen
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Forum Navis
Site Forum Navis.
The redevelopment of the historic Abattoir site can be seen as the first step to the revaluation of Cureghem, in Brussels. Next, this project handles the renovation of the city block amid that site and the Heyvaert district, a district that’s generally dominated by shady car business. The overall ambition is to convert the whole city block into a nice living environment with specific qualities for a large range of people.
The project demands at least 150 housing units, a community center for small scale neighbourhood activities complementary to events at the Abattoir site and a high density, being a floor/terrain ratio of 2,5.
and on the part north-east, a tower with the communitycenter underneath it augments the project with a new city-scale landmark next to the canal and the large plaza of the Abattoirsite.
Three main objectives shaped the further elaboration. First, increased permeability of this city block should connect the whole Heyvaert district with the Abattoir site. Therefor two shortcuts for walking and/or biking divide the site into three parts. On the part south-east an already insinuated building block gets finished, on the middle part a smaller building block gets created
Second, the introduction of some natural elements should make a peaceful, pleasant environment complementary to the large paved surface of Abattoir. Therefor the building block in the middle recedes to extend the plaza of Abattoir with a green zone of relaxed terrace underneath some trees.
The space north-east of the tower, next to the canal is also designed as a green zone additional to the community center which at the same time insinuates the start of a green, peaceful walk along the canal, something the other city blocks bordering the canal can continue. Furthermore, both building blocks are designed with a green garden, an oasis in their middle and the tower is equipped with several winter gardens at several heights, tuned with certain views to the city surroundings.
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Ground floor. (cRobin Portier).
Section. (cRobin Portier).
City sight Head
Neighborhood sight Body
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Overall idea.
Thirth, the demanded high density should be achieved in a sustainable manner. A lot of attention went to the materials used for the construction and finishing of the building. The building block in the middle is divided into four different parts to enlarge the permeability. Each part is designed in a different way to create diversity and make the whole more playful so people feel at home. Further, each roof is designed as an extensive green roof to enlarge water infiltration, reduce noise and other known sustainability reasons.
Finally, the temptation for habitants to use their car gets limited. Each building block had a directly accessible bike parking, while all car parking is organized in one parking underneath the middle building block. Users won’t be able to access their dwelling directly via the parking, they’ll always need to go outside into the building block garden. This stimulates encounters between different habitants of one building block and makes it less probable that they use their car for short distances.
This way the city block and its surroundings should evolve into a coherent, vibrant and safe living environment and stimulate further redevelopment of the other parts in the district.
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Plaza next to Abattoir in front of the tower. (cRobin Portier).
Collective garden.
Schippersstraatje.
Tower seen from the Abattoir site.
Promenade next to the canal. (cRobin Portier).
Detail 1: Roof.
Detail 2: Upper- and under junction window.
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Detail 3: Roof garden.
Detail 4: Curtain wall.
Detail 5: Foundation.
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Maggie’s Centre
Maggie’s Centre (health) December 2014 Anouk Aerts Mentor: Elina Karanastasi
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Study of form.
North-east facade.
South-west facade.
Fold and cut.
Merge.
Heart of the center, a stable bridge through life with ups and downs like a landscape of hills.
Two promenades to reach the Maggie’s center.
Three things are important in the design of a Maggie’s center. First of all, it should feel like home, being with family. When people enter the hospital, the first thing they see is a reception desk, where they wait. Next, when they have an illness like cancer, the doctor brings them the confrontation with the finiteness of their life. Thereon starts uncertainty, pain and loneliness. A Maggie’s center should be the contrary. It should be welcoming, safe and without people ‘in charge’.
A second important thing is the landscape, presence of nature and natural elements like fire and water. All people differ, as does the way they process things. The apple orchard, chosen as the location for the center, is accessible in two ways. One way is straight through the forest; a promenade among people, like nothing happened. Everyone is there for their own reasons, but all enjoy nature. When reaching the open orchard, the forest gives the impression of a dark place behind you. A metaphor for the pain and bad experiences you leave behind while entering the Maggie’s center.
Though some people process differently, they don’t need a confrontation with other people. They want to take a walk alone, to overthink the whole situation and escape. For them, the Maggie’s center is also accessible through an open field that merges with another side of the forest. The hospital is visible, but it seems so far away. It seems like nobody ever enters this place, but still there are benches to rest. Back in the forest, right before entering the center they meet an old and protected, sick tree.
Finally, the expression of the building to the outside is relevant. It should be welcoming and not overwhelming, not disturb or be a stranger to its surroundings. People should not be ashamed to enter this building. Also it should augment something to the site. The overall idea is that the building arises from the ground like a couple of hills, life with ups and downs. The center of the building should symbolize a stable bridge through that landscape.
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Area for group counsel.
Dining area.
Fire place.
Level 0.
Cross section, not an ordinary toillet, but a place to retrieve - presence of nature.
Level 1.
Roof.
Longitudinal section, the heart of the center.
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Section 5, longitudinal section welcoming coat stand.
Kitchen closet 1.
Section 1, kitchen closet 1.
Kitchen closet 2.
Lockers.
Section 2, kitchen closet 2 and lockers.
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Detail 1, kitchen closet 1, drawers.
Detail 4, kitchen closet 1, shelves.
Detail 2, build-in extractor, cross section.
Detail 3, build-in extractor, longitudinal section.
Detail 5, kitchen closet 2, shelves.
Detail 5, table and chairs, cross section.
Detail 7, table and chairs, horizontal section.
Detail 6, table and chairs, longitudinal section.
Detail 8, foldable chair, step 1.
Detail 9, foldable chair, step 2.
Detail 10, foldable chair, step 3.
Detail 11, foldable chair, step 4.
Detail 12, foldable chair, step 5.
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