Zorghotel Qaly Beersel
ZORGHOTEL QALY BEERSEL
51N4E
ARCHITECTS
51N4E
LANDSCAPE
Land9, Aldrik Heirman, Nazareth, Belgium
ACOUSTICAL ENGINEERING
De Fonseca – Meise, Belgium
TECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Istema – Gent, Belgium
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
ALL-INgeneering – Zoersel, Belgium
CONSULTANTS
Probis Consulting, Geel, Belgium
CLIENTS
QALY Development
PHOTOGRAPHS
Filip Dujardin
AREA
10880 m²
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Beersel, Belgium
CATEGORY
Hotels
Text description provided by architect.
On the rolling landscape of a former farmer’s field, today enclosed by suburban development, new care, and recreation center for the elderly takes form.
The main challenge was the integration of a building program larger than the surrounding villa tissue without disturbing the suburban qualities of Beersel.
The plan is articulated in such a way as to leave breathing space between the new building and the surrounding urban tissue while realizing the necessary programme for a community with a growing need for such facilities.
At the point where the building meets the public domain, it opens up formally and functionally, making a link between the world of the residents and the broader community; a place to meet, something which the area doesn’t have today.
At a smaller scale, the resident’s windows are designed to be as inhabitable as possible.
Taking on the role of a piece of furniture, as well as a window out onto the world.
Its form frames a new park, the façade forms its background analogous to a kind of populated garden wall.