The project that first fired Mr. Simeone’s and Ms. Coirier’s imaginations represented a major milestone for its architects, whose Brussels studio has been well regarded by design-world insiders since its founding in 2002.
The 2,000-square-foot house in the remote Spanish region of Matarrana presented the practice with an opportunity no public client (and few private ones) ever would. The project's developers basically gave us carte blanche, Mr. Van Severen said, a chance for the architects to strut their avant-garde stuff.
Over the next six years, the pals-turned-collaborators have found their way from that concrete-and-glass enclosure about two hours from Barcelona to a very different house in an altogether different place: central Sweden.
Somehow there's this parallel, Mr. Van Severen said, referring to the way both structures, despite their differences in location and design, share a conceptual bond.
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