What Do the Neighbors Bring to mind the Glass-Walled Narrow House? [Architecture]

Bilzen is a small, quiet city near the eastern border of Belgium. Its streets are lined with 17th and 18th Century buildings and modest homes. And then there’s Bassam El-Okeily’s glass-fronted Narrow House . Don’t forget to wear your robe.

The three-story Narrow House, a collaboration between Brussels-based architect Bassam El-Okeily and Karla Menten , has a tumbler facade behind which there are two balconies lit with various colors. It makes the folk standing there at night look pretty creepy.

But the inside’s one more story; white and sparse and surprisingly huge, it’s missing chunks of wall and ceiling which enable the little sunlight that makes it past the cast balconies to fill the whole space. The second floor is a living space; the third is an artist’s studio.

A beautiful home, but I ponder how the neighbors feel about their street getting an everlasting house-sized nightlight. More shots at Designboom . [ Designboom ]

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