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Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent

Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture

ARTEVELDEHOGE SCHOOL CAMPUS KANTIENBERG GHENT

Binst Architecture

SAFETY COORDINATOR
Probam

ENGINEERING
RCR Studiebureau

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Besix

ACOUSTIC ADVISOR
Scala Consultants

ACOUSTIC ADVICE
Scala Consultants

AREA
9870.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Belgium

CATEGORY
Schools

Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture
Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture

Text description provided by architect.

Building schools means building the future, as youngsters will assimilate and pass on their spatial experience of light, air, simplicity and beauty throughout their lives.

Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture
Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture

The designers were honoured to have the opportunity to deliver creative social impulses of this kind. Following several earlier ‘trial runs’ in the centre of Mortsel (merger of three primary schools), central Antwerp (UIA) and Gasthuisberg hospital in Leuven (midwifery), this fourth winning competition design for a school building is the most expressive to date.

It stands out primarily for its unusual context, solitary infill and specific parameters. Within the outlines of the master plan – parallel to the future linear park and in relation to the arrangement of the volumes – an ascending staircase with central patio follows the town’s natural undulation.

Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture
Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture

This beacon on Kantienberg hill in Ghent functions as a brick sculpture, incorporating the entrance and the media library, and supported to the rear by a tower. Vertically rotating aluminium plates enclose the tower in a discreet packaging.

The ‘living’ walls with their constantly changing appearance are oriented towards the city, flirting with the transparency of the tower volume and creating a variety of daytime and night-time atmospheres in the Ghent skyline.

Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture
Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture
Arteveldehoge School Campus Kantienberg Ghent
Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture


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