Nathan Heindrichs
nh@specs.work
+32 (0) 496 62 52 22
Helen Van de Vloet
hv@specs.work
+32 (0) 478 62 75 07
Specs is located at Rue Émile Delva 43a, 1020 Brussels
About this website
This website is hosted with Domaine Public in Belgium, near Brussels. It is built by Marie Verdeil with the intention to minimise the energy and resources required to access it. The files are generated with a static site generator, meaning there is no database. Furthermore, images are compressed, there are very few dependencies (no javascript, no framework, no CSS library). A version of this theme and documentation is accessible on Gitlab with a license CC-BY-SA-NC.
All photography by Specs except mentioned otherwise.
Scenography for theater company Tibaldus. Fairy Tales stages Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella as written by Robert Walser. Unfolding of different coloured, sheep wool surfaces. In collaboration with Marion Aeby.
Table with wheels on one side and adjustable feet on the other. Mobile for talking, stable for showing. In collaboration with Anton Parys. The Heavy Table is produced on demand, direct email inquiries to nh@specs.work.
Open-backing the serial row house.
Refurbishment of the offices of Architecture Workroom Brussels. Strategies to make room, introduction of several furniture elements, forty meters of modular curtains. In collaboration with Anton Parys and with the help of Marion Aeby.
Renovation of the Place Lehon in Schaarbeek. A simple composition keeps what works and adds what misses. In collaboration with studiœmile, Carbonifère, Heleen Verheyden, Studio Ensemble & Denkbar.
Repurposing of an agricultural hall near Liège. The project integrates two interior volumes under the existing roof, creating a winery and a twelve persons stay in between generous outside covered spaces. In collaboration with Alix Lewalle and Jean Hanisch.
Brussels seems somehow unable to produce new fountains that at once bring singularity and drinking water to public spaces. The demonstrative and the drinking fountain form two distinctive realms: when water is made integral to the identity of a square, two elements will appear side by side. Doubling down on this phenomenon, a simple strategy: the city provides a drinking fountain, we couple it to an intervention. Through this association, an assertive stepping-stone: by joining forces with Brussels’ administration about the placement of two needlessly related components, make the case for a post-factum fine-tuning program that can be launched on a larger scale to upgrade the city’s inventory of normative and seasonal drinking fountains. Graphic Design by Bureau DAM and Pedro Mata. A research in residence organized by Architecture Curating Practice.
Renovation of two apartments in Liège. Bathrooms retreat in tinted MDF volumes with glazed friezes, bringing light and scope to primary spaces. Curtains are created from deadstock denim fabrics.
Textile interventions. Threads bind blankets into a modular and flexible climate division.
Exhibition and publication duo on the policies surrounding real estate developments in the cross-border south of Luxembourg. Co-curated and co-edited with Peter Swinnen, David Peleman & Beatriz Van Houtte Alonso. Graphic Design by Somehing Fantastic. Book published by Buchhandlung Walther König. Photography by Stijn Bollaert.
Textile intervention for chapters 2 and 3 of exhibition Daybed. A sea of blankets and cushions creates a pause in the museum. Curated by Julie Peeters and exhibited at Macro Roma. Daybed designed by Alice Babini.
Open-ended series of referential intuitions. Produced by Helen Van de Vloet as part of her research on layered spaces and textiles.
Renovation of an apartment in Brussels.