Specs Logo (Left)
Specs
Specs Logo (Left)
Specs
is the collaborative practice of Helen Van de Vloet and Nathan Heindrichs. Established in Brussels around 2022, it aims to find the divergent paths between the project’s means and architectural generosity. Every trajectory pursues the balance of insight and sensibility needed to build with quality and consequence.

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.

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Fairy tales
2024
Completed

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.

Theater Scenography
Theater Scenography
Theater Scenography
Theater Scenography
Theater Scenography
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Heavy table
2024
Completed

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.

Furniture design
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Façade
2025
Ongoing

Open-backing the serial row house.

Residential extension
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Workroom
2024
Completed

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.

Refurbishment of offices
Refurbishment of offices
Refurbishment of offices
Refurbishment of offices
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Lehon
2023
Ongoing

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.

Public space renovation
Public space renovation
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Hangar
2022
Ongoing

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.

Wine production facility and stay
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Spring
2024
Completed

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.

Research on Brussels' drinking fountains
Research on Brussels' drinking fountains
Research on Brussels' drinking fountains
Research on Brussels' drinking fountains
Research on Brussels' drinking fountains
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Serbie
2024
Completed

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.

Apartment renovation
Apartment renovation
Apartment renovation
Studio renovation
Studio renovation
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Onion skin
2022
Ongoing

Textile interventions. Threads bind blankets into a modular and flexible climate division.

Textile partitions
Textile partitions
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Red luxembourg
2022
Completed

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.

Exhibition and publication
Exhibition and publication
Exhibition and publication
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Daybed
2021
Completed

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.

Exhibition scenography
Exhibition scenography
Exhibition scenography
Exhibition scenography
Exhibition scenography
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Cahiers
2021
Completed

Open-ended series of referential intuitions. Produced by Helen Van de Vloet as part of her research on layered spaces and textiles.

Self-published reference books
Self-published reference books
Self-published reference books
Self-published reference books
Self-published reference books
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20e
2021
Completed

Renovation of an apartment in Brussels.

Apartment renovation
Apartment renovation
Apartment renovation
Apartment renovation