Right next to a recently restored stately Art Deco building from the 1930s in Uccle, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen has built a small, simple art pavilion. The outer dimensions are little more than a good 10 by 6 metres, and it comprises just a single, double-height room. In this pavilion, the owner can display part of his art collection, but it is also an ideal place to retreat to, with a view of a magnificent garden. Yet this simplicity is deceptive.

At first glance, the structure is simplicity itself. The building consists of a rectangular concrete box, which ensures it is watertight and windproof. A beautiful box, mind you. It still bears the traces of the formwork’s veneer, and the hue is a warm yellow, so that the concrete complements the limestone of the main building and of the staircase between the pavilion and that building.