Atelier Tom Vanhee

Woesten Community Center

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin

WOESTEN COMMUNITY CENTER

Atelier Tom Vanhee

CONTRACTOR
Monument Vandekerckhove

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
S.C.E.S. nv

CLIENTS
Gemeentebestuur Vleteren

PHOTOGRAPHS
Filip Dujardin

YEAR
2011

AREA
616 m² 

LOCATION
Vleteren, Belgium

CATEGORY
Public Space, Community Center, Renovation

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin

The building is accessible by a central binding public domain, the playground of the former school. By opening some windows further down we reinforce the relationship between interior spaces and this square.

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin

By doing the same at the other site of the building, the back area is activated as a green semi-public space linked with the meeting hall.

The closed functions, the storeroom, the technical areas and the sanitary facilities are grouped in a partially extended volume. It is a rejuvenation of the building, where the recent sanitair extension gave rise to.

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin

This slider movement brings light in the heart of the meeting centre and gives more space at the central entrance hall.

Internal windows overlook this hall and spread the light into the adjacent spaces.

The other rooms have an open character, and can be used fully for the activities of the meeting centre : kitchen, meeting room, meeting hall and drawing Academy.

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin

The attic is elaborated for what is needed to use the building today. Further inside extension is still possible in the future.

Materials are choosen by the score at their circle of life analysis.

The used wood is FSC-labelled : the structure of the extension (floors, walls and roof), the structure of the light interior walls, the windows, the façade coping and its structure, extra wooden bars for floors and for fixating,isolation.

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin

We used fibre boards for the interior walls, Celit and OSB for the extension. The toilets are supplied with recycled rain water. The lights are energy efficient.

The heating system recuperates the heat of the evacuating gases. The ventilation system recuperates the heat of the dirty removed air.

We took care of better isolation : we changed all windows in high isolating glass, the roofs, floors and new walls are isolated.

Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin


Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin
Woesten Community Center
© Filip Dujardin


Woesten Community Center
Proposed Ground Floor Plan
Woesten Community Center
Existing Ground Floor Plan
Woesten Community Center
Proposed First Floor Plan
Woesten Community Center
Existing First Floor Plan


Woesten Community Center
Site Plan
Woesten Community Center
Master Plan


Woesten Community Center
Concept
Woesten Community Center
Concept

Atelier Tom Vanhee
T +32 2 2451618 M +32 496 127438
Atelier Tom Vanhee
Rue Verboeckhaven 99, 1030 Bruxelles, Belgium