This Revived Belgian Farmhouse is a Step Above

From afar, the isolated brick farmhouse in the countryside of Pepingen (about 30 kilometres from Brussels, Belgium) appears almost as it would have when it was built over 100 years ago. But as one gets nearer, a few contemporary interventions begin to reveal themselves: the cleaned-up (and, in some cases, replaced) brick, new fenestration and, most notably, when moving around back, a triangular void in the roof that creates a light-filled internal courtyard and transitional space between indoors and outdoors.

Belgian farmhouse landscape designed by Denis Dujardin, featured in Azure Magazine's 2025 September/October issue

The landscape design by Denis Dujardin includes local vegetation and a discreet channel that funnels excess rainwater to a natural pond to be purified and slowly filtered back into the ground.