Refuge House is a single-family residence set in landscaped gardens deep within the Flemish suburban landscape. After the house was rebuilt, the surrounding landscape was left unmaintained and transformed into a wild landscape. The house sits on a raised plinth that elevates the ground floor from its wild surroundings, contrasting with the surrounding greenery and giving the existing villa a monumental feel.

The site was reorganized by positioning the sanctuary in the center of the garden according to the villa's biaxial system and the site's curved plot boundaries. Around the pool house, a set of landscape elements are carefully planted: filter pool, patio, bike shed and storage room. The house also includes a swimming pool with an etching studio. It has a concrete container with precise openings that frame the landscape.

A circular arch keeps the space together. The landscape design comes from this and complements the architecture. A circular "Hortus Conclusus" was created, completing the shape of the cutout in the roof slab. Circles are used as the visual language for the abstract version of the clearing in the forest. Every frame that appears throughout the space is like a dialogue with the existing house and nature.

Refuge Houses are positioned to link with the garden. Like the house, it is an element on a new sand-coloured concrete path from the street to the yoga platform. The red solid concrete shell provides a soft contrast to the complementary green surroundings. Red is a nuance of the existing house and new landscape elements in the same dark red brick. Consistent with the house, large sliding windows at Refuge Houses divide the pavilion into a hard exterior and a soft, isolated interior. All metal elements that emerge from the landscape have the same fuchsia color as the joinery: light poles, gates and the kitchen garden area.