From the detail to the building: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu

De Vylder Vinck Taillieu is a study based on Ghent, Belgium, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck and Jo Taillieu, which tries to develop this idea. It is a study for which the work with the detail (Detailers) and its design are essential when you start projecting. They work intensively on all scales of project, drawing, understanding the process, design, production, from the small to the large scale, from the object to campus, from the familiar to the public client request.

This love for details leads them to generate an architecture full of surprises, where the architectural elements are beyond its mere function and become design objects that give character to their works.

In buildings for Les Ballets C B and LOD (Firgure 01 and 02) the structure of beams and pillars have not the same material and the same color. Each structural dimension has been accurately calculated instead of trying to conform to standardized units. This makes each item different from the previous one. The use of green in some of them gives a certain unity to the different buildings of the project, and is not only visible in the inner rooms but also from the outside, through a striking glass façade (Figure 01).

They also use the details for generating illusions that hide the changes made in rehabilitations. An example of this is the Weze house, an old school that transformed themselves into housing (Figures 03 and 04). Inside, the beams are left exposed in some areas, connecting the different levels of housing (Figure 05).

Their Sanderswal house also breaks with the idea of ​​conventional housing. A large deck emerges from the side wall to cover kitchen that is attached to the "traditional" housing (Figure 06). The façade of this annex is solved by a brick wall in which white pieces are interleaved (Figure 07). The side of the wall disappears through a mirror coating (Figure 08).

In 2011 they began collaborating with Serge Vandenhove in a new professional project: JIJ's, an office dedicated to the design of everything that is not purely architecture.

Their work has been recognized with awards of architecture of his country on several occasions, they have been nominated to the Prizes Mies van der Rohe with the projects Les Ballets C from B & Lod and Rot-Ellen-Berg and Twiggy and 2015 they have also been selected for the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. DVVT has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, in the Istanbul Design Biennial and at the New Museum in New York, among others. They have also taught and lectured at international schools such as the Accademia di architettura of Mendrisio and the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.