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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

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The fire station and the municipal warehouse of Brasschaat both need an extension. The double architectural intervention brings structure to their shared site. Continue reading GAFPA

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Lange Munte Sports Center in Kortrijk is being expanded with new outdoor sports infrastructure. A low, elongated canopy, pushed against the existing sports hall, draws a line in the landscape. It materializes the main axis of the site and creates a roof under which changing rooms, sanitary facilities and storage spaces are slid as clusters. Continue reading GAFPA