Gent A dilapidated house and not in the mood for renovation? Or a vacant plot of land for a house, but no patience to build? Then, you can now have a ‘inschuifhuis’ buy: a completely prefabricated wooden house, all comfort included, that in one piece between the other houses being pushed. “Modular housing is the future”, they say at Labland and at the Ark Shelter.
to show what they are capable of, have Labland and Ark-Shelter one of their dwellings on the first floor of the empty Warehouse 20 to the Voorhavenkaai. The thing is there is literally inserted, with an excess of 7 inches. “Houses of a maximum of 4 metres wide and 15 metres long, we take literally in one go, and places we know where they should stand,” said Steven Vromman of the Ghent-based company Labland. The Gentenaar was once known as Low Impact Man. “You can, of course, a larger house to be built also, but then with the construction or opbouwmodules worked.”
The houses have the size of standard townhouses, and that is exactly where at school. “A lot of Ghent homes are in terrible condition, so bad that renovate is pointless. The owners see the hassle of demolition and re-build, and let then but a slum. Also, developers and contractors see no bread in here and there a house. They want big projects. To that problem, we have a simple and viable solution: a inschuifwoning.”
House
The houses look a bit like cottages, but are actually real homes. “It is timber frame, but much stronger, just because we the whole house must be able to lift and move. Everything is perfectly insulated, and all comfort is present. In this voorbeeldhuis you can, for example, the double bed at the rear with a app up, let it slide, and you discover that underneath a bath. Heating will be done with heat pumps. We deliver so portable, zero-impact residential area.”
150.000 euros, you have a new, habitable home that, in terms of quality at least equivalent to an ordinary house
Steven Vromman of the Ghent Labland
And it can go fast. There is a building permit necessary to inschuifwoning to place, that process takes four months. A finished home, it takes 2 days to a week. Cheap they are not, of course, the inschuifwoningen, but they are cheaper than traditional build. “We’re at about 1,200 euros per square meter, comfort included, vat not included”, what it sounds like. “That makes 150.000 a new, finished, habitable house can have, in terms of quality at least equivalent to an ordinary house.”
Ecologically
the initiators of The project hope in the short term, some of these houses in Ghent. It is a pioniersproject, which they want to demonstrate that the concept is feasible and simple. The homes themselves are built in the Czech republic, with ecological material. There is therefore, no tropical hardwood. The houses could, in principle, be anywhere. On a flat roof, on a detached plot and a row of houses.
anyone Who’s interested, contact us via www.inschuifhuis.be.
