How do you turn a cramped house with a tiny garden into a small palace with endless sightlines? Fijn Atelier provided an answer to that question that is fascinating for at least three reasons.

Pieter Coutereelstraat is a winding street in the heart of Leuven’s historic working-class neighbourhood. You can still see this in the tiny houses on two side streets that lead to Fonteinstraat. Although Predikherinnenstraat and Zevenslapersstraat are only 26 metres apart, four houses were built along Pieter Coutereelstraat during the interwar period. Three of them were built as a single project, as evidenced by the identical bay window on the first floor and the dormer window.