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Peter Zumthor : Kolumba
01 2010
140827 : 1000 - 1200
Zumthor’s design delicately rises from the ruins of a late-Gothic church, respecting the site’s history and preserving its essence. ”They [the Archdiocese] believe in the inner values of art, its ability to make us think and feel, its spiritual values. This project emerged from the inside out, and from the place,” explained Zumthor at the museum’s opening. Zumthor, consistently mindful of the use of the materials, and specifically their construction details, has used grey brick to unite the destroyed fragments of the site. These fragments include the remaining pieces of the Gothic church, stone ruins from the Roman and medieval periods, and German architect Gottfried Böhm’s 1950 chapel for the “Madonna of the Ruins.” The facade of grey brick integrates the remnants of the church’s facade into a new face for the contemporary museum. Articulated with perforations, the brick work allows diffused light to fill specific spaces of the museum. As the seasons change, the” mottled light shifts and plays across the ruins,” creating a peaceful ever-changing environment.
Köln
Kolumbastraße 4 – D-50667
http://www.kolumba.de/?language=eng&contact=1
Hans van der Laan : Abdij Sint Benedictusberg
02 1956-1986
140827 : 1330 - 1500
Architecture is born of this original discrepancy between the two spaces – the horizontally oriented space of our experience and the vertically oriented space of nature; it begins when we add vertical walls to the horizontal surface of the earth. Through architecture a piece of natural space is as it were set on its side so as to correspond to our experience-space. In this new space we live not so much against the earth as against the walls; our space lies not upon the earth but between walls. This space brings a completion to natural space that allows it to be brought into relation with our experience-space; at the same time it allows our specifically human space to be assimilated into the homogenous order of nature. (Hans Van der Laan)
Vaals-Mamelis
39 6295 NA Lemiers
http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl
Rudolf Schwarz : St. Fronleichnam
03 1930
140827 : 1530 - 16.00
The parish church St. Fronleichnam in the East of Aachen is one of the best known examples of modernist church architecture. Its minimalism was so radical for the late 1920s, that initally the plans were rejected by the authorities. The church is a clean white box, with hardly a whiff of color. Commissioned directly by the community of Aachen, the architect believed that sacred buildings must grow not only out of sacred reality, but also out of the reality of our time. Approached from the adjacent street, the ascetic appearance of this starkly plain mass may lead the visitor in thinking that the building could be a factory shed. Formed of a plastered box with a side nave, a campanile and a parish house, the building complex is read as a unified architectural composition of an intriguing white. A shallow saddle roof, rows of square windows and an unassuming entrance give little indication to the unexperienced eye that this might be a House of God.
Aachen
Leipziger Str. 19 - 52068
http://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/St-Fronleichnam-Aachen--666.htm
Gottfried Bรถhm : St. Hubertus
04 1964
140827 : 1630 - 1700
Gottfried Böhm (born January 23, 1920) is a German architect, he is currently the only German architect to be a Pritzker Prize laureate. Böhm was born into a family of architects in Offenbach, Hessen. His father, Dominikus Böhm, is renowned for having built numerous churches throughout Germany. His grandfather was also an architect. He has been considered to be both an expressionist and post-Bauhaus architect, but he prefers to define himself as an architect who creates “connections” between the past and the future, between the world of ideas and the physical world, between a building and its urban surroundings. In this vein, Böhm always envisions the colour, form, and materials of a building in relationship with its setting. His earlier projects were done mostly in molded concrete, but more recently he has begun using more steel and glass in his buildings, due to the technical advancements in both materials. His concern for urban planning is evident in many of his projects, again showing his concern for “connections”.
AAchen
Händelstraße 8b, 52074
http://architectuul.com/architecture/st-hubertus-church
51N4E : Speelpleinstraat
05 2012
140828 : 0930 - 1030
“To free up as much park space as possible, we propose to integrate the unlikely combination of kindergarten and machine depot in a compact circular building. Organized in one single level around an interior courtyard, the plan minimizes circulation and maximizes the relation with the surroundings. The sharp contrast between the two users is softened by raising the level of the kindergarten, thus putting all users at eye level, only separated by a glass wall. Seen from the outside, the raised level detaches the building from the park, allowing the greenery to flow freely around it.�
Merksem, Antwerpen Speelpleinstraat 61, 2170
hicarquitectura.com/2014/03/51n4e-speelpleinstraat-kindergarten-greenery-service/
va : Middelheim Museum
06 1900 - 1971 - 2014
140828 : 1100 - 1230
The Middelheim Museum collection contains approximately 400 works of art collected up over a period of more than 50 years. Renaat Braem, one of Belgian’s best-known 20th century architects, designed the beautiful pavilion in 1971. It has recently been refurbished and forms a pleasing synergy with the park. The Belgian artist Philippe Van Snick created the extraordinary fountain in front of the pavilion. The Braem Pavilion is reserved for the fragile showpieces of the permanent collection, and works by wellknown artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp, Wim Delvoye and many others receive the attention and care they deserve. Starting at the Braem Pavilion, a 750 metre corridor runs through the park, past the Middelheim Castle and over the Middelheimlaan to Hortiflora, a flower garden that was formerly part of the Nachtegalen Park until its inclusion in the Middelheim Museum in 2012. The open-air museum now covers no fewer than 30 hectares of park and exhibition space. Three exhibitions are hosted annually in and around the exhibition pavilion ‘Het Huis’, which was designed by Robbrecht and Daem.
Antwerpen
Middelheimlaan 61, 2020
http://www.middelheimmuseum.be/Museum_Middelheim_EN
Le Corbusier : Maison Guiette
07 1926
140828 : 1245 - 1315
Guiette House designed by Le Corbusier’s in 1926 is considered one of his most unknown works. It’s an early and classic example of the “International Style” and built in 1927 as the residence and studio of the painter René Guiette. The building has a cellar, ground floor, first and second floor, and a roof terrace on the third floor (at the back). The large window on the top of the front facade is from the studio of the painter. It was once inhabited by Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester who supposedly despised architecture tourists gazing at her house, although she had restored the house in 1985 by Georges Baines and built an extension next to it.
Antwerpen
Populierenlaan 32
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Belgium/Antwerp/Maison%20Guiette
Stramien Architectur : SD Works offices
08 2010
140828 : 1400 - 1500
The existing warehouse “Kendall� was transformed for SD Worx into a contemporary office building. The basic concept encompasses the elimination of a complete floor, halfway the building, to ensure sufficient lighting in the building. In the back, a long utility block is positioned against the separation wall on each floor . As for the rest, the entire surface remains open and available as a flexible landscape office. The existing roof construction is replaced by a new, transparent steel structure. Its rhythm and regularity refer to the rigid brick architecture of the old warehouse. The new roof is an extension and the opposite of the existing building at once. Together, they form a new unity. The whole building is air conditioned via an energy sufficient concept with blinds, night ventilation and free cooling. Extended study shows that even in a renovation project, sustainable techniques can be applied, in a cost-effective manner, to enhance the quality of the architecture and the comfort inside the building.
Giststraat
http://cms20.condros.eu/uploads/stramien/FILE_07663183-44D0-4614-AEFE-43F6D887498D.PDF
Neutelings Riedijk Architects : Museum Aan de Stroom
09 2011
140828 : 1500 - 1600
The new museum is between the old docks in the heart of “Het Eilandje�. This old port area is the major urban renewal project in the center of Antwerp and is developing as a vibrant new city district. The MAS is designed as a sixty-meter-high tower. Ten gigantic natural stone boxes are piled up as a physical demonstration of the gravity of history. It is a storehouse of history in the heart of the old docks. Each floor of the tower is twisted a quarter turn, so that creates a huge spiral staircase. This spiral space, which is bordered by a wall of corrugated glass, is a public city gallery. A route of escalators carry visitors up from the square to the top of the tower. At each floor the visitor can enter the museum hall and go into the history of the dead city, while on his way to top breathtaking panoramas of the living city itself unfolds. At the top of the tower are a restaurant, a party room and a panoramic terrace. Facades, floors, walls and ceilings of the tower were completely covered with large slabs of red Indian sandstone hand cleaved, making the image of a monumental stone sculpture. The four colors of the stone slabs based on a computerized pattern are dividend on the facade.
Antwerpen
Hanzestedenplaats
http://www.archicentral.com/belgian-museum-aan-de-stroom-completed-in-antwerp-26737/
Vincent van Duysen : Central Hostel Antwerp
10 2013
140828 : 1630 - 1730
The design is by the local architect Vincent van Duysen. The facade, with its rhythmic pattern of vertical windows, is proportionally related to its neighbours, and is clad not with concrete (as it may appear in photographs), but familiar Belgian bluestone, an expense the architects justified not only on aesthetic grounds, but for its sustainability. (It will last forever, and requires minimal care.) Most of the windows are deeply inset, to accentuate the building’s mass, though large picture windows that shield public spaces are pushed up against the facade. In the evening, video works by the artist Michel Francois are projected onto these large glass panels, turning them into screens. Public spaces have a sleek, Death Star vibe to them—but in a good way—with walls and ceilings painted matte black. The living spaces are above, along double-file corridors in a neutral off white. The success of the project is attributable to numerous factors, but none more important than the evident care taken by the architects, who typically work on the very high end, that the precision of their design was carried through to the end, and not value-engineered into oblivion. Antwerpen
Bogaardeplein 1
http://www.vai.be/nl/project/jeugdherberg-pulcinellawerp-26737/
Studio Bernardo Secchi, Paola Viganò : Theater square
11 2006
140828 : 1745 - 1830
Since the redevelopment of Antwerp’s theatre-square market, it has been possible to shop there even on a rainy day. The square has been provided with a colossal free-standing steel canopy, more than 20m in height and with a surface area of ca. 70 x 70m. Despite the powerful overall visual impression it makes, a careful look at the canopy will reveal that it is comprised of relatively simple steel components. Another immediately apparent element of the square are the fire escape stairs of the Municipal Theatre. Following hot-dip galvanisation, the stairs were assembled on the ground floor, and the handrails in turn attached. Then, the entire stairs ‘measuring 12m in length) were hoisted and attached to the canopy construction. Almost 1.000 tonnes of steel were employed in realising the project.
Antwerpen Nieuwstad
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Belgium/Antwerp/Antwerp%20Theatre%20Square%3A%20Stairs
Julian Lampens : Our Lady of Kerselare
12 1966
140829 : 1000 - 1030
The architecture of the Belgian Modernist Juliaan Lampens (°1926) goes beyond designs for conventional living and instead suggests a utopian avant-garde of living without barriers. He experimented with the use of raw concrete and created sculpture-like exteriors leading onto open vistas.
Edelare
Papelosstraat, 9700 Oudenaarde
http://subtilitas.tumblr.com/post/7044639254/juliaan-lampens-our-lady-of-kerselare-pilgrimage
Sergison & Bates Architects : Home Vijvens
13 2011
140829 : 1100 - 1300
The care home is organized into three adjoining volumes of three floors, with two central courtyards open to the sky. The volumes are stepped in plan, achieving a sense of reduced scale for what is in reality the largest building in the village. The 88 rooms and studio bedrooms are arranged in clusters around the perimeter with views out to the landscape. A single large communal living room is positioned on each floor in the centre volume, adjacent to staff and support areas, with views out to the central garden and internal views out to both central courtyards. The circulation spaces vary in width and doors (necessary for fire separation) are located discreetly so that corridor and living room form a single open interior landscape. The exterior character of the building has a strong horizontal emphasis in direct response to the walled garden environment and flat polder landscape beyond it. Precast concrete rails at each floor level project beyond the building envelope on all elevations, and between them wide brick panels and full height window assemblies create a repetitive order which is adjusted as the interior plan arragements change.
Huise (Zingem) Kloosterstraat 18
http://hicarquitectura.com/2013/01/sergison-bates-architects-care-home-huise-zingem-belgium/
Stephane Beel : Economie en Bedrijfskunde van de Universiteit
15 2003 -
140829 : 1500 - 1545
From the architect. The campus path that crosses the building, the topography, the nearby existing economics building, and the new program together generate the form of the building. The path leads down from the street towards the roof of the existing building. On one side are organized all the vertical circulation shafts of the new building, on the other side a double height foyer is accessed from the path. The auditorium is situated above it and accessed through a main stair. Behind is a meeting room of the faculty. On the top level a library is organized around a patio, combined with offices. The front and back faรงade are in glass and cantilever outwards; two lateral faรงades are in concrete, one of them being a screen made out of 20m high concrete fins.
Gent
Tweekerkenstraat 1, 9000
http://www.stephanebeel.com/projects/publicbuildings/
Xaveer de Geyter : St. Lucas School of Fine Arts
16 2006
140829 : 1500 - 1545
The workshop building is also an autonomous form based on a piling of horizontal, alternating, opaque and translucent volumes. It is a building shaped simultaneously by its program, by urban rules and by its context. It is an irregular stacking of rectangular massive volumes with intermediate translucent parts providing zenithal light to the work stands. The piling up of the volumes settles all the building regulations and the insertion in its irregular context. Two workshops have a double height and mezzanine floors inside, the top one a single height. Each workshop has closed walls on its lower level as a work surface. The walls function as beams spanning from one core to the other in order to get workspace without internal structural elements.The inner court, a lapidarium, is enlarged and reconsidered as a micro-urban plan with different levels in which the existing collection is spatially reorganized.
Gent
Ingelandgat 41, 9000
http://xdga.be/#sintlucasschooloffinearts
Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu : Les Ballets C de la B and LOD
14 2013
140829 : 1400 - 1445
Two buildings. Two production studios for dance theatre and music theatre. For Les Ballets C de la B and LOD. Where they were expecting to have to share a single building, each found its own building. The buildings stand there, parked on a site that – at first sight – seems impossible, surrounded by 17 different sides. The site is given order again by buildings and open space. Open space as urban space. Open space as private space between the buildings and their surroundings. Two buildings, copied. A reflection. A copy, but different. Two buildings. Back to back. And yet, looking at each other. Two closed buildings. And, nonetheless, two open facades. Facades that offer an insight into the building. A particular insight. Open facades that nevertheless also offer an insight into the construction. Of the building. A layering of columns and beams: steel, wood, concrete, and masonry. Construction that shows the face of the building. Detail of the building. The facade opens the building by unravelling the thickness of the facade. And suddenly the subsidiary spaces become visible. The piling-up of those subsidiary spaces becomes visible.
Gent
Ingelandgat 41, 9000
http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/243284-architecten-de-vylder-vinck-taillieu-Les-Ballets-C-de-la-B-and-LOD
Robbrech En Daem Architecten & Marie-JosĂŠ Van Hee Architecten : Market
17 2012
140829 : 1800 - 1830
Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite of three adjoining Gothic towers. In two consecutive competitions between 1996 and 2005, Robbrecht en Daem architecten and MJosé Van Hee architects proposed their own programme, countering the initial competition requirement. Rather than just providing an open space for events, they sought, by meticulously positioning a market hall, to rectify this deficiency and reinstate the presence of old urban areas that had become unrecognisable. The building positions itself between Poeljemarkt, Goudenleeuwplein, and a new lower ‘green’ connecting to the ‘brasserie’, bicycle park and public toilets below the hall. And although the building clearly occupies a position on the 24,000m2 site, it fits in well. Compared to St. Nicholas Church, Belfry and Cathedral, it assumes the heights of a lower group of buildings such as the adjacent town hall, from which it derives, mathematically, its profile.
Gent
Poeljemarkt 9000
http://hicarquitectura.com/2013/02/robbrech-en-daem-architecten-marie-jose-van-hee-architecten-market-hall/
51N4E : OCMW Nevele
18 2012
140830 : 0930 - 1030
The generously opened up facades enable the residents and the staff to fully enjoy the gardens around. The facades materialize towards public spaces in shiny red glazed tiles, to more intimate or functional spaces in light grey plaster. Inside, an open network of over scaled bright hallways leads to the different living units. Each room is doubled, offering both a living space and a bedroom area to the residents. The sleeping area with low large windows focuses on complete privacy, whilst the living room offers the exact opposite. Large sliding doors enable the residents to expand their private living area into the hallway, immersing themselves in the daily life of the home, following the activities of the staff, other residents, visitors or passers-by outside. Besides fulfilling todays energy standards, the integration of an elderly home in a city fabric and the society is the key feature of a social sustainability. The OCMW Nevele is looking for a productive relation with its context far beyond its plot. It shows how a single building can have the urban influence to change a site and its perception.
Nevele
Graaf van Hoornestraat 26 9850
http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/246052-51N4E--OCMW-Nevele-
Sergison & Bates Architects : City Library
19 2011
140830 : 1230 - 1330
The project for the new city library in the Flemish seaside town of Blankenberge involved the refurbishment, re-organisation and major extension of a former 19th century school building wich has protected status as a local monument. The brief required the creation of a variety of rooms, each dedicated to a specific kind of activity. The making of these different rooms harmesses and reinforces the memorable quality of the existing building. Tall, interconnected, book-lined rooms are quiet and comfortable, lighting is controlled and acoustics are soft. In the new building rooms have a different character: they are more spatially open, looser in their geometry, with generous views out to the cityscape.
Blankenberge
Onderwijsstraat 17 , 8370
http://hicarquitectura.com/2012/09/sergison-bates-architects-public-library-blankenberge-belgium/
Hansteerds Architectuur : Cemetry Entrance Pavilions
20 2010
140830 : 1600 - 1630
This pair of pavilions by Dutch studio Hansteerds Architectuur mark the entrance to a cemetery in the city of Blankenberge, Belgium. The pavilions have a wood-frame construction clad in horizontal slats made of paudak wood. The pavilion on the left as visitors approach is a public toilet while the other, on the right, forms an office and colonnade with benches overlooking the cemetery. The interiors are finished in oriented strand board with the doors, cabinets and windows painted black. The interior – walls as well as ceiling – is covered with plywood, which combines nicely with the white porcelain of the toilets, rusts free steel accessories, black doors, cabinets and door- and window frames.
Blankenberge
Scharebrugstraat 112
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/09/06/entrance-pavilion-cemetery-by-hansteerds-architectuur/
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen : Multiplies
21 2010
140830 : 1700 - 1730
The party walls of a lot in Tielt are raised to their maximum height. On the side toward the street the elevated wall forms a wide entrance. Within this frame stand two identical buildings, mirror images opposite one another, thus defining an inner courtyard. The block on the street side contains a store and reception area; the block at the back of the lot contains the less public section, the logistics spaces. The twin buildings are constructed as matter-of-factly as possible out of the typical range of industrial techniques and materials. The structure consists of thin steel columns and beams, and steel deck floors. Both are clad with a pronounced curtain faรงade, partly filled in by glass, partly by polycarbonate panels. The courtyard defined by the two volumes functions as a parking and entrance zone. The remaining space between the footprint of the buildings and the lot lines becomes a whimsical garden, as a complement to their regularity.
Tielt
Adolf Loosveldtstraat 9
afasiaarq.blogspot.com/2013/02/office-kersten-geers-david-van-severen.html
Xaveer De Geyter : Europe College
22 1997
140831 : 0930 - 1030
The key issue here is how to insert new architecture in a loaded historical surrounding. Bruges is one of these cities that tries to keep its centre intact, with the risk of banning too much of today’s city life. The city maintains a set of rules on scale, materials, roof inclinations‌ that are supposed to keep existing urban qualities intact. Among others, concrete façades and big glass surfaces are forbidden. Two buildings are to be added to an old school campus, which will house a postgraduate law and economics school. The campus consists of a conglomerate of historical buildings organized around a sequence of enclosed courts. The campus is accessed from three different streets. The two new volumes replace less valuable old buildings. They are set freestanding from the old buildings while redefining the courts; their ground floor surface is partially open and continuous with the courts. N1 consists of classrooms and a central reception desk, N2 accommodates two lecture rooms, some offices and a foyer on ground floor. One side of the building covers an outside entrance space to the campus that is accessed from an existing gate on the main street.
Brugge
Verversdijk 16
http://architizer.com/projects/europe-college/
Actergael Architecten : Politiecommissariaat
23 2013
140831 : 1100 - 1200
The relocation of the police station to the edge of the city will give a strong impulse to the future development of the harbour site. The judicious positioning and dimensioning of its compact, floating office volume ensures that it fits in with the structure and scale of the former harbour area. The entrance to the building is organized on two levels.The ground floor, which accommodates all public functions, is a welcoming, open structure. At basement level, the inner courtyard functions as an operational link between the logistics complex, the detention complex, cloakrooms and technical spaces. Raising the offices of the administration complex above ground level in a white, compact volume safeguards the quality of the vast open space of the port area.The fact that an extended part of the program was executed belowground ensures that the cornice connects up with the construction height of neighbouring buildings, allowing the new police station to become a link between two existing scales: the harbour infrastructure and the residential architecture. The Bruges police station is one of the most sustainable government buildings in Belgium to date.
Brugge
Lodewijk Coiseaukaai 3
http://architizer.com/projects/politiecommissariaat-brugge/
Robbrecht en Daem : Concertgebouw
24 2002
140831 : 1230 - 1330
As in many towns and cities, the construction of the railway infrastructure in the 19th century left serious scars. After the demolition of the station building on Het Zand in Bruges, the site became an urban open space, but not a square. The immediate proximity of the center, the presence of an underground car park, the direct link to the city’s ring-road and ease of access from the whole region were the arguments for the correct choice of Het Zand. One very determinant element in the project was the decision that the large concert hall must also be suitable for music theatre, an option with far-reaching consequences in terms of the height of the building, the acoustics and thus also for the budget. The programme also provided for a small chamber music hall that also had to serve as additional foyer space. Robbrecht & Daem describe the volume of the building as a ‘recumbent body’. It is no coincidence that the basic arrangement of the foyer and the large auditorium have connotations related to the human body. The building is a body that has to anchor itself to a particular place, and which has to take up a permanent place in the complex body of the city.
Brugge ‘t Zand
http://www.robbrechtendaem.com/projects/cultural-public/concert-hall
Ney & Partners : Smedenpoort
25 2012
140831 : 1300 - 1900
The Smedenpoort, a historical gateway to the city of Bruges from the 13th-14th century, is in its current state to narrow to organize a fluid traffic of cars, pedestrians and cyclists. The city of Bruges decided in concentration with the Commission of Monuments and Landscapes to add new footbridges on the both sides of the existing building. Specific features The new footbridges had to respect the strong historical presence of its environment. We chose to design the bridges as a “promenade� to meet that requirement. The path has been conceived as an element that embraces the existing bridge and building. The supporting elements have a reduced dimension due to the amount of anchor points and the structural use of the parapet. This also creates the effect of an extremely transparent structural design. The structure will be constructed in weatherly steel and the walking surface will be made out of concrete. The use off full steel bars and the proposed details refer to the hand-made blacksmithing.
Brugge
Smedenstraat 71
architizer.com/projects/smedenpoort-in-bruges/
BURO II : Grand Hotel Casselbergh
26 2010
140831 : 1430 - 1500
With its central location and rich history, this site is of major importance to the World Heritage City of Bruges. Tourism is an important engine of the local economy. The conversion of this building into a hotel with conference facilities will finally, after many years, remove an eyesore from the Hoogstraat. The project consists of two parts: the renovation of the three historic buildings on the Hoogstraat and a new development on the Groene Rei. The modern development replaces a property of little value built in the 20th century. The new addition to the cityscape of Bruges is conceived as a bronze treasure chest set with gems. The architectural form of a box with a chamfered roof can also be found in the Bruges Belfort (which houses a treasury as well as the town accounts).
Brugge
Hoogstraat 6-8
ahttp://www.e-architect.co.uk/belgium/bruges-buildings
Sörmúzeum
XX Brugge
140831 : 1500 - 1700
At the Bruges Beer Museum you discover the most fascinating aspects of beer in a fun and innovative way. The tasting area offers you a unique view of Bruges’ Market Square. If you want to find out even more about beer, we invite you to browse our library. After the museum visit you get to taste the different beer types and styles. The price of admission includes a tasting of 15cl of three beers of your choice. You can use the different touch screens to find out about the origins of each beer or why a certain beer has more of a sweet, sour or bitter taste. You can choose from 16 diverse draught beers. We also offer a range of matching cheeses. If you prefer not to drink beer, feel free to have a soft drink instead.
Brugge
Breidelstraat 3
http://www.brugesbeermuseum.com/en/museum
Dehullu Architecten : City Hall
27 2012
140901 : 0930 - 1000
’ The works that have been conducted are part of a masterplan that was developped in 2007. Due to the growing needs of the city services, the Town Hall was looking for an extension of their site.Redevelopping the new site, a new entrance building was designed, centrally located between two existing historically valuable buildings. The new entrance building links it’s adjacent buildings. None of the floors of these neighbouring buildings were corresponding. The challenge was to make all of the floors accessible for wheelchair users. Therefore the location of elevators and staircases was very carefully thought of. Since it’s central location in the city, the new entrance building was designed to be a contemporary ‘landmark’ on the main road of Harelbeke. Therefore the cladding of the facade and the roof was executed in a dirt repelling white material. The material is a mineral substance of the brand Corian. It is the first time in Belgium that this material is used as exterior cladding.
Harelbeke
Marktstraat 35
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/03/21/city-hall-harelbeke-by-dehullu-partners/
Dierendonckblancke Architecten : Dexia Bank NV
28 2011
140901 : 1000 - 1015
The mission to rehabilitate an existing bank facility in Harelbeke fits within revitalization of Dexia. The addition to the program with 8 office spaces, increases the necessity to build an extension. The existing corner building, a protected city view, is preserved and renovated. It becomes the main entrance to the bank facility. On this zone a ATM-zone is installed. The first level keeps its program as apartment. All offices are regrouped in a new volume, which is located on the existing parking lot. On demand of Dexia everything is organized on 1 level, which results in a clear scheme. The internal circulation of the extension with the corner building and the existing part with non-public functions, is organized through the connection volumes. These make it possible to visually disconnect the existing with the new structure. This creates a solitude building with its own identity that is in juxtaposition with the two existing wings. This results in intermediate spaces that allow light and space to enter.
Harelbeke Leiestraat
http://hicarquitectura.com/2013/05/dierendonck-blancke-architecten-bank-office-belgium/
Dierendonckblancke architecten : Comunity Center
29 2013
140901 : 1045 - 1130
Zonnebeke, Beselare Geluwestraat 10
http://dierendonckblancke.eu/?p=2511
51N4E : Buda Art Centre
30 2012
140901 : 1200 - 1245
The last remaining textile factory on Buda Island – an area destined to become the cultural heart of the city – has been transformed into studios and exhibition spaces for artists in residence. This large volume, situated in the middle of a city block, has been adapted through two main interventions: The first hollows out a large void in the centre of the building, bringing daylight deep into the vast floor plan. This pentagonal void houses a public staircase that gives access to a diverse range of spaces on four levels: a laboratory for manufacturing, multifunctional spaces of varying sizes and lighting conditions, music venues and a roof terrace. The second intervention adds an open pavilion as an entrance hall from the street. Built from the yellow brick discovered in the original interior, this pavilion becomes the new facade of the complex: the tip of the iceberg. The Buda Art Centre is a new type of cultural space. Making reference to its past, it remains a workshop of production. The materials and details make it an approachable space for all kinds of activities and users.
Kortrijk Dam 1
http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/218164-Buda-Art-Centre
Baumschlager & Eberle : Hospital AZ Groeninge
31 2005
140901 : 1300 - 1400
The principal urban development objective of this large-scale project, the dimensions of which far exceed those of the surrounding fabric, is to ensure the successful integration of the complex into a park-like setting. The use of a traditional courtyard structure is an effective means to this end. A system of five interconnected blocks enables the 144,000 square-metre property to be broken down into appropriately sized units. The structure of the complex is determined by the individual modules, which function as independent units. This divides the building into clearly recognizable parts and simplifies the internal organisation. This hallmark of the interior can also be discerned in the overall layout of the five blocks. Its determining feature is the varied design of the internal courtyards, one of the purposes of which is to counteract any sense of anonymity and facilitate identification with the architecture. The two-storey reception hall radiates spatial clarity and an airy spaciousness. A recurring feature throughout the complex is the continuous reference to the outdoor space.
Kortrijk
President Kennedylaan 4
http://www.baumschlager-eberle.com/en/projects/project-details/project/krankenhaus-az-groeninge.html
Dehullu Architecten : AZ Groeninge Auditorium
32 2014
140901 : 1400 - 1500
The AZ Groeninge Auditorium in Kortrijk, Belgium is a part of a meeting center on the site of the general hospital with the same name and it was designed by the Dehullu Architecten practice in 2014. The hospital and its infrastructure were designed on a Cartesian grid and the auditorium is much smaller in size, being located in a corner. The designers wanted this structure to have its own identity so the grid wasn’t imposed here. The purpose of the auditorium is to offer a hideout for the hospital staff, somewhere to relax and step away from their professional worries into a natural environment with an optimistic ambiance. The plot was originally occupied by a villa and it is now a meeting center with six meeting rooms along with catering facilities and high end projection technology. The bricks of the façade were placed vertically due to the shape of the walls and the golden doors used for the interior are a reference to the old villa.
Kortrijk
Burgemeester Vercruysselaan
http://architectism.com/auditorium-az-groeninge-kortrijk-dehullu-architecten/
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen : VOKA Office building
33 2010
140901 : 1330 - 1730
This office building, housing the Chamber of Commerce in West Flanders, stands like a villa in the landscape of the urbanized edge of Kortrijk. The building is conceived as having two faces, like the Roman god Janus, showing distinctly different aspects to the street and the garden. The representative façade on the street side, completely of glass, displays the organization’s operations like a billboard in a giant concrete cabinet. The only architecture within the open plan are the two prominent staircases. The entrance is on the more intimate side of the building facing the garden. Its V-shape frames a part of the landscape and embraces the entrance plaza with a lower-lying patio, around which all the public parts of the building are accommodated. Here Villa Voka forms the edge of the “meadow,” an open place in the wooded landscape. Both the façade and the plaza are finished with steel grid work that shields them from the sun out of the south, and also serves as a uniform and abstract material for the frame around several trees.
Kortrijk
President Kennedylaan
http://hicarquitectura.com/2013/07/office-kersten-geers-david-van-severen-chamber-of-commerce-belgium/
Souto de Moura : Crematorium “Uitzicht”
34 2013
140901 : 1600 - 1645
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.� T.S.Elliot It is a matter of searching for calm and make peace with the impressive landscape of Hoog-Kortrijk. The cemetery of Hoog-Kortrijk is a serene place that folds with the landscape, with plateaus that slip rhythmically over the slope. The strength of this place is born especially from its extension and vastness. It is very important to maintain the perspective and the silence. The new crematory is covered with earth and green as the landscape, making part of it. On the roof of the crematory one can recognize some figures of the light and sky, in granite, metal, glas and stone. The new crematory will breathe light and sky, water and landscape, for us the essential things. The crematory will not become a church or chapel, with a religious or mysterious ambiance. Nor will the crematory be a house with a familiar ambiance. The new crematory that we propose will become an extremely sober and righteous building, for a clear and dignified farewell.
Kortrijk
Ambassadeur Baertlaan 16-18
hicarquitectura.com/2013/03/sumproject-souto-de-moura-crematorium-uitzicht-in-kortrijk/
Stephane Beel : Campus KULAK 1-2
35 1970-1990
140901 : 1700 - 1745
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kulak, or KULAK is the only university in the Belgian province of West-Flanders. In 1970, the StuHu was built: a student home containing a restaurant, a meeting room and several living units. In 1971, the Groene Mote (or the ‘dorm’) was finished. That same year, the faculty or Arts and Philosophy was opened (currently Building A). The Medicine faculty building was finished in 1973 while the Interdisciplinary Research Centrum (IRC) was inaugurated in 1975. In 1982, a new building phase started which comprised the erection of a ‘student village’ and the building of a new Library, Faculty of Science and administration buildings. In the early 1990s, the new Building B, designed by architect Stéphane Beel, was opened. In 2007 a new enlargement phase started. This phase consisted in the construction of a new student residence, named Corona, to house 81 students and a new building, Building D. Also, the long corridor between Buildings A and B, the so-called “Spina”, was enlarged until the new Building E.
Kortrijk
Etienne Sabbelaan
www.stephanebeel.com/projects/public-buildings/kulak2-spina-kortrijk/#1
Dierendonckblancke Architecten : Community center Spikkerelle
36 2007
140901 : 1800 - 1830
The site is on the border of a protected natural reserve on one side and near the village centre and community church on the other side. Our aim was to construct a compact building. By stacking the functions and using the existing slope of the site we could do this. In this way the footprint of the building was reduced and space was preserved for open air activities. This also means less foundation on an unstable underground. The building is positioned on the border of the site to create as much as possible distance between the public building and the dwellings nearby. The program consists of a theatre (305p) on the first level, a multifunctional hall (700p) and cafĂŠ (150p) for a local youth organisation in a partially sunken basement. Foyer and administration are in between on the ground floor level. All interventions and design decisions were taken to combine the different parts of the program in one dense building in order to reduce maximally the build surface as the budget was restricted. We proposed a multifunctional use of different entrances that allow an easy use for the owner.
Avelgem
Scheldelaan 6
http://dierendonckblancke.eu/?p=1775
LOW Architecten : Little Willy
37 2008
140901 : 2100 - 2200
Little Willy is the name of a multifunctional complex combining a bed and breakfast, a penthouse, a shop and a restaurant. Special about this project is the dialogue between the old and new, located on a small corner plot. However Little Willy is more than just a striking corner building: it is part of the urban renewal that is going on for some years in the Brussels Dansaert district. The design is started from the difficulty to develop a small rest space on a corner in the middle of the Dansaert area, and connect it with an existing, historically interesting house. LOW architecten proposed a volume that slowly grows over the adjacent house. On some places incisions were made in favor of large outdoor spaces. This terraces structure guarantees a rescaling of the volume and stimulates interaction with public space. Different housing units are stacked one on top of the other, where every unit still has its own private green space or terrace. Together with the public functions on the ground floor – which include a shop, a gallery and a restaurant with large terrace – city life is present in this complex.
Brussels
Rue de Flandre 164
europaconcorsi.com/projects/262526-LOW-architecten-Little-Willy
URA Architecten : KAU Gymnasium
38 2013
140901 : 0900 - 0930
The surrounding forest is the starting point for URA to design a simple building which contains all confrontations of the site: open vs. closed, trees vs. slope, materiality vs. transparency, building vs. environment. The gymnasium is dug into the natural slope. The facade shows the duality of the context: a strong, closed concrete wall on the one side and a wooden structure with a black steel plates cladded facade on the other side. These two facades meet in the perspective of the stage-stair. The surrounding trees are seen from different perspectives. “Going to the gym� confronts the pupils (again) with the basic elements of nature.
Brussels
Nekkersgatlaan 17
http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/246060-URA-Architects--KAU-Gymnasium
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh : Reading between the lines
39 2011
140901 : 1100 - 1130
On September 24th, 2011 Gijs Van Vaerenbergh revealed a construction in the rural landscape of Borgloon (Limburg, Belgium) that’s based on the design of the local church. This construction consists of 30 tons of steel and 2000 columns, and is built on a fundament of armed concrete. Through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art. Reading between the Lines can be read as a reflection on architectural themes such as scale and the ground plan but the project also emphatically transcends the strictly architectural. After all, the church does not have a well-defined function and focuses on visual experience in itself. At the same time, the construction demonstrates that this experience is in effect a consequence of the design, since it explicitly refers to the various stages in its conception like the design drawing and the model. Apart from that, because the church does not fulfill its classical function, it can be read as a heritage related reflection on the present vacancy of churches in the area (and their potential artistic reuse).
Borgloon
Sint-Truidersteenweg (bus parking)
http://www.archdaily.com/298693/reading-between-the-lines-gijs-van-vaerenbergh/
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Arnóth Sam Lajos Czigány Tamás Csillag Katalin Dévényi Tamás Dobai János Getto Tamás Golda János Kalmár László Lévai Tamás Nagy Iván Pelényi Margit Johanna Pethö László Roth János Szabó Levente Tomay Tamás Arnóth Ádám
Balázs Marcell Baranyi Ágnes Beke András Bujdosó Ildikó Csáki Péter Élő József Fajcsák Dénes Frikker Zsolt Juhász Kristóf Kovács Barbara Kovács Dávid Kozma Zoltán Kun Tamás Lukács Eszter Mezey Tamás Páll András Szigeti Nóra Sámson Rita Vörös Tamás
Építész Mesteriskola : XXII. ciklus : Belgium : kirándulás : 140827 : 140902
2014