The Connected House

The client is a family businessman working between Belgium and the DRC, running his day across three time zones. He asked for a house he could run from anywhere — and that would never look like a machine for doing so.

The automation was designed from the slab up rather than retrofitted. Lighting, blinds, security, sound and water form one specification, drawn with the first services layout and priced with the structure. The visible result is architectural: continuous seams of light let into soffits and reveals, no switch plates competing with the joinery, and the plant room buried in the garage core where its hum belongs.