GENERIEK . photos: © Johnny Umans
The Heilig Kruiskerk has been transformed into a multifunctional space, including out-of-school childcare (IBO), event, ceremonial, exhibition areas, and an outdoor playground. This project, along with the renovation of the village square, has turned the heart of Boekhoute into a meeting place for everyone, from young to old, locals to newcomers, and believers to non-believers. Continue reading GENERIEK
DF__DC . photos: © Simone Bossi
The building takes its form from the site, at the boundary between historical core and the town extension. This transition is reflected in the strange L-shaped plot, which the building adopts after applying the offsets and other normative parameters. Continue reading DF__DC
Souto de Moura
The project recovers the granite ruins of an old construction and renews them, adding a few adjustments in the openings, to comply with the program. Inside, another brick house is clad in granite walls, already treated. Continue reading Souto de Moura et alii
Oliver Christen Architekten . photos: © Rasmus Norlander
At the foot of the castle hill, within the finely grained fabric of Laufenburg’s old town, the new building subtly integrates as the final component in the existing row of houses. Its placement and orientation respond to both the topography and the history of the place – once part of the castle gardens, today a transition between the historic old town and the new town. The building responds with an independent attitude that is both introverted and open. Continue reading Oliver Christen
