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Xaveer de Geyter – El Croquis 204
Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect Tower Kitchen en Brussels, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect -
Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France
Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France | Xaveer De Geyter, architect 
Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France | Xaveer De Geyter, architect 
Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France | Xaveer De Geyter, architect 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 have been to place a new volume in the courtyard &mdashso far used for logistics&mdash around which the school is built. This is the only outdoor area on the site and a potential common space.
Our proposal was to remove unnecessary elements such as an underused parking floor and slide a one-layer library under a semi-raised public surface. A cafeteria is positioned on top of this court as a pavilion. It takes the form of a rising loop to permit deliveries on the square. A large void that perforates the pavilion, three skylights that take the form of benches and the square sloping up at the front create three ways to bring natural daylight into the library level.
Acoustics
Structural engineer
Mechanical engineer
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El Croquis 204 – XDGA – Xavier de Geyter Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:
El Croquis 204 – XDGA 2005 – 2020
This monograph is dedicated to the work of Xaveer de Geyter Architects entre 2005 y 2020. This office founded by this Belgian architect in 1991.
20 projects and two essays are presented on this monograph.
Between Pragmatism and Invention. A Conversation with Xaveer de Geyter.
Sarah Whiting
Political Animals. The Architecture of Xaveer De Geyter Architects.
Philip Ursprung
ISBN 9788412003468
Semi-hard cover -255 pages
24 x 34 cm -1,8 Kg -
GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium
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 care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect 
GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT ACQUISITION: Search and view in jesusgranada.eu is free and any different use outside here must be authorized. If you are a publisher, journalist, publicist or manufacturer interested in use photos from this project on your magazine, book, company or marketing campaign, you need to acquire copyrights about needed photos. Fill this form to obtain conditions and fees of copyrights.
El Croquis 204 – XDGA – Xavier de Geyter Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:
El Croquis 204 – XDGA 2005 – 2020
This monograph is dedicated to the work of Xaveer de Geyter Architects entre 2005 y 2020. This office founded by this Belgian architect in 1991.
20 projects and two essays are presented on this monograph.
Between Pragmatism and Invention. A Conversation with Xaveer de Geyter.
Sarah Whiting
Political Animals. The Architecture of Xaveer De Geyter Architects.
Philip Ursprung
ISBN 9788412003468
Semi-hard cover -255 pages
24 x 34 cm -1,8 Kg -
Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium
Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium | Xaveer De Geyter, architect 
Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium | Xaveer De Geyter, architect 
Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium | Xaveer De Geyter, architect 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 of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another &mdashcontradictory&mdash demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, whose position was an obstacle in between the fragments.
Landscape
Structural engineer
Mechanical engineer
LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT ACQUISITION: Search and view in jesusgranada.eu is free and any different use outside here must be authorized. If you are a publisher, journalist, publicist or manufacturer interested in use photos from this project on your magazine, book, company or marketing campaign, you need to acquire copyrights about needed photos. Fill this form to obtain conditions and fees of copyrights.
El Croquis 204 – XDGA – Xavier de Geyter Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:
El Croquis 204 – XDGA 2005 – 2020
This monograph is dedicated to the work of Xaveer de Geyter Architects entre 2005 y 2020. This office founded by this Belgian architect in 1991.
20 projects and two essays are presented on this monograph.
Between Pragmatism and Invention. A Conversation with Xaveer de Geyter.
Sarah Whiting
Political Animals. The Architecture of Xaveer De Geyter Architects.
Philip Ursprung
ISBN 9788412003468
Semi-hard cover -255 pages
24 x 34 cm -1,8 Kg -
Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium
Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect 
Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect 
Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect 
Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, 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 façade are in glass and cantilever outwards; two lateral façades are in concrete, one of them being a screen made out of 20m high concrete fins.
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This book was Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers.
El Croquis 204 – XDGA 2005 – 2020
This monograph focuses on the work accomplished by Xaveer De Geyter Architects between 2005 and 2020, office founded by this Belgian architect in 1991.
Xaveer de Geyter (Doornik – Belgium, 1957) graduated at the Architecture Institute St. Lucas in Ghent in 1981. After that, he started working at Rem Koolhaas’ office (OMA) in Rotterdam, until 1991, when he founded his own office.
At the same time, he has been working as a teacher in the school where he obtained his degree. He has also worked as visiting and guest professor at the Berlage Institute, Delft, Netherlands (1993-2003), the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (2004) and the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (2016).
ISBN 9788412003468
Semi-hard cover -255 pages
24 x 34 cm -1,8 Kg -
Harquitectes – El Croquis 203
El Croquis 203 – Harquitectes 
Winery Clos Pachem in Gratallops 
La Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre 
House in Ullastret (Girona), Spain 
Cristalleries Planell Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain -
House in Ullastret (Girona), Spain.
House in Ullastret | Harquitectes, Girona (Spain), 2017 | © photo El Croquis publishers – Jesús Granada 
House in Ullastret | Harquitectes, Girona (Spain), 2017
© photo El Croquis publishers – Jesús Granada
House in Ullastret | Harquitectes, Girona (Spain), 2017
© photo El Croquis publishers – Jesús GranadaThe stone wall that marked the boundaries of the property ran around the whole site, and passers-by could only see the treetops. Although the materiality and the irregularity of the wall geometry gave it a particular character and presence, the planning regulations now in force obliged the street to be widened, making it impossible to preserve the wall. In its absence, the first and greatest challenge for the project was to re-contextualize the plot with a new house that could engage with its surroundings in a coherent, respectful and honest way.
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El Croquis 203 – Harquitectes 2010 – 20 ‘learning to live in a different way’ This book was Commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers.
El Croquis 203 – Harquitectes 2010 – 2020
This monograph is dedicated to the work of Harquitectes between 2010 and 2020. This office was founded by David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros and Roger Tudó in 2000.
20 projects and two essays are presented on this monograph.
Learning to Live in a Different Way. Two Days of Conversations by Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda.
Wind of Change. A Trip to the Buildings of Harquitectes by Philip Ursprung.
ISBN 9788412003444
Semi-hard cover – 360 pages
24 x 34 cm – 2,2 Kg