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The former Sugar Factory site along the Moervaart canal is an important part of Plusoffice’s Masterplan for the wider Moerbeke area. Following an intensive co-creation process with residents, the aim is to create a vibrant mix of local activity, diverse housing and medium-sized businesses. The area around Moerbeke is characterised by a varied and well-preserved open landscape, with rows of poplar trees, field lines and drainage canals. A high-quality setting for the compact village. The Moervaart canal acts as a natural border and prevents further urbanisation. Continue reading GAFPA

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The Carlton site in the center of Aalst is transformed into an urban housing project. A green collective inner area weaves through the building block and makes the connection between the Center Park on Zonnestraat, the triangular square in Windmolenstraat and the park garden of the adjacent Karmel site. Continue reading GAFPA

GAFPA BUREAU VOOR ARCHITECTUUR EN STEDENBOUW

The two parts of a castle estate will be reunited after years of splitting. The neoclassical mansion at the entrance gate will be restored and given a new residential function under its undulating roof. Continue reading GAFPA

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A regular concrete structure takes up the entire depth of the kinked plot behind a terraced house. The house is being thoroughly renovated, the living areas are located on the first floor. The roof slab is being cut out from the two rear bays of the former ground-floor warehouse. Topped with a light greenhouse structure, this intervention brings light into the ground-floor art gallery. A steel canopy, new rubble stone flooring, a concrete bench and tree accommodate the roof terrace above. A light spiral staircase connects both worlds. Continue reading GAFPA

GAFPA . photos: © Pieter Rabijns

Along the banks of the old arm of the Meuse, a new reception building for the Negenoord nature reserve is designed by GAFPA. In an elongated tower volume, an information point and an exhibition space are stacked on top of each other, encased between two massive concrete cores. Slender TT floors span a free field of ten meters from core to core, leaving the front and rear facades transparent. Continue reading GAFPA