Architect Bruno Stevens designs slate-covered studio for his ceramist mother

Architect Bruno Stevens has added a sunken slate-clad ceramics studio to a house on a sloping site in Belgium.
Stevens and Belgium studio LAVA Architecten, where he was working at the time of the project, designed the unit in Sterrebeek for his mother, a ceramicist and jewellery designer. She needed the extra space to work on her craft and to host workshops.The two-storey structure attaches to one side of the existing brick residence and sinks into the curve of the inclining site. The ground flo