The expansion of a nineteenth-century townhouse in the heart of Ghent resulted in a second house – a ‘summer house’ marked out by a precise modular frame of steel sections, overgrown with grapevines, that sits in the irregular outdoor space alongside
The project for an extension of the Design Museum Ghent is composed by a stacking of various geometrical figures. Together with a concrete slab defined by the perimeter of the site, the stacking offered a variety of spaces on each floor. While the ma
The prominent location, in a charged historical context, advised to stack the program in a slender tower that connects with its surroundings via a sun-filled terrace separated from the neighboring buildings by a garden, and with panoramic rooftop vie
The proposal consists of a volume of two parts: a pedestal that matches the grain of the street and the scale of passerbys; and a tower that acts on the scale of the city and joins the skyline; both are connected by the folds and colors of the facade
This hybrid construction of timber frame and concrete floor slabs steps away from the ‘white cube’ with a structure that expresses its materiality. The bays of ceramic tiles afford a decorative and painterly quality harmonious with the historic conte
A rich museum devoted to design culture takes up an entire block in the Belgian city’s old quarter that will be rearranged and completed with a sculptural volume crowned with a lookout. Besides a new landmark, the extension aspires to be a benchmark
The new media library located in Ghent’s historic center presents a stack of horizontal slabs in what is a highly flexible volume. A series of external metal louvers set before the facade of the media library serves to protect the building against su
The project for this single-family house in the city of Ghent was chosen in a private competition called by the future owner, also an architect, who invited three teams to submit proposals. The site assigned is in the interior of an urban block, surr
The new media library, in the center of Ghent, sits at a bend of the krook, the canal that runs through the city and reaches its lowest level at this point, marking the two ‘zero levels’ of the city: that of the canal itself and that of the many brid
A new market covered by a huge roof of origamic pitches, clad with wood and glass, has served to organize one of the most emblematic spots of the historic center of Ghent.
The British partnership of Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke – in collaboration with the Belgian firm TRANS Architectuur and RE-ST – has won the bid to build an extension to Design Museum Gent (see AV Proyectos 99) that will improve circulation and the
El estudio catalán RCR junto con los flamencos Coussée & Goris ha ganado el concurso de la nueva mediateca en el centro histórico de Gante, Bélgica. La propuesta consiste en un apilamiento de losas, un volumen horizontal cuya planta baja transcurre e
