Maison de l'architecte Albert Mommaels — Louvain (Heverlee)

Villa in the Art Deco style built in 1935 by the architect Albert Mommaels as his own home (building permit of 21 November 1935); according to the inventory, it differs sharply from his other works, mainly reconstruction houses in an eclectic and historicist style in the centre of Leuven. Set back from the street on a wedge-shaped plot bordered on the west by the railway, the villa, almost square in plan with a rounded corner to the south and a semicircular projection to the north-west, has two storeys over a half-sunken basement containing the garage, under a hipped roof of dark tiles. The red brick of the ground floor and the white render of the upper floor, separated by a strongly projecting white string course that echoes the cornice, make up a sculptural façade with projecting and recessed window and door sections. The central entrance bay is marked by a porch reached by a rubble-stone stair and by a grid of twelve small windows lighting the stair hall; the corner windows of the upper floor and the original joinery, including the door with red wrought-iron spiral grilles, survive. The villa, recently divided into three dwellings, is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.