Passive townhouse in the city

Meet the circular building project of Christophe and Karen

On 25 April 2019, Karen and Christophe became the owners of a townhouse in Mechelen. They have big plans for it: to turn it into a passive house in which they can live for life.
Modular, in other words, so that it can accommodate all future life phases. A house as an empty block box in which they can experiment to their heart's content. A house with a clearly sustainable character, using ecological materials and techniques, where circular construction and cradle-to-cradle materials are central, and which is independent of fossil fuels.

How they go about it and where they are now in their circular, change-oriented building project are extensively documented on their website. It is still under construction - the house comes first, the website only afterwards ;)

So if you want recent information about the project or if you want to have a look on site, contact Christophe and Karen. They are looking forward to share their experiences and are open to any input from outside.
Also, anyone who has a technique/product that they would like to try out in the real world, anyone who can provide them with administrative support (project follow-up, subsidy files, demolition inventory, material passports, ...), anyone who thinks that they could exchange materials between yards/material banks, anyone who wants to use the project as a prototype for similar projects or anyone who can help them spread the above message to speed things up even more, is certainly welcome. Christophe and Karen consider their house to be a lab-house, in which they will actually live.