Hollow brick shell encases glass-walled House SSK in Belgium

De Baes Associates and architect Sophie van Noten's House SSK is a steel and glass house wrapped inside an open-topped brick shell in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Smuggling in contemporary design like an architectural Trojan Horse, House SSK's unusual design is a response to the restrictions of building a new home within an older urban fabric.
Photo by Filip Dujardin
Kortrijk-based De Baes Associates collaborated with Sophie van Noten of VBVN to design the unusual house.
"The house disengages fr