Architecture Faculty in Tournai
ARCHITECTURE FACULTY IN TOURNAI
Aires Mateus
CATEGORY
Educational Architecture, Extension
CLIENT
Université Catholique de Louvain
COLLABORATOR
Susana Rodrigues, Joana Carmo Simões, Vânia Fernandes, Sara Nobre, Sofia Paradela, Inês Gulbenkian, Bernardo Sousa Isabel Sousa, Aiden Thornhill, Théophile Legrain, Antoine Pruvost, Charles Cossement
AUTHORS
Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisco Aires Mateus
PROJECT LEADER
Jorge P Silva
The project occupies the interior of a historical city block where buildings from different identities and periods coexist.
There are two industrial buildings and a convent that has been used as a hospital.
The new building is positioned in order to bond together each of these structures and to define new external spaces.
All the existing buildings are connected vertically and horizontally throughout the block.
Inside, public functions are sheltered, like the foyer and auditorium, operating not only as passage spaces and meeting places but also as a part of a new identity.
