There appears to be one constant about academic buildings: they require extensions, often at the cost of their own initial qualities. In this case, a new library and a cafeteria are required, in addition to the reorganization of an existing building and the spatial restructuring of an interior street. The obvious answer to the competition brief would…
GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial…
The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today’s sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green zones, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement…
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…
In the harbour area, a narrow stretch of land alongside a dock is freed from port activities. A very simple ‘chopstick’ urban plan is being developed by O.M.A. in which open green pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to give the linear plan a notion of centrality, a public path is designed to cross the whole strip.…
Tower Kitchen in Anderlecht, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect Tower Kitchen in Anderlecht, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect Tower Kitchen in Anderlecht, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect