A listed castle in a public park will be repurposed as a residential building after many years of vacancy. Private, collective and public parts will be carefully demarcated.  New additions are carefully contemporary and strive for harmony. The whole prevails over the parts.

Masterplan: 
We demolish chapel and outbuildings to create a full-fledged park entrance at the level of the monastery wing. We reconstruct the moat. The historic access bridge becomes a public passage to the courtyard, café and park. A landscape buffer forms the boundary between private and public.
 

Service wing:
The service wing has historically had an unaligned facade and section. Since only the facades are protected, we aligned the new sections with the facades. This produces an interesting spatiality.

Monastery wing:
The monastery wing is compositionally unfortunate attached to the castle at the location of the castle tower. In order to restore the valuable castle to its glory, we partially demolish the monastery wing at this point of attachment. To respect the three-part structure of this monastery wing, we will raise the central bay. This also makes it possible to provide high-quality outdoor spaces. Near the demolished chapel, we propose a new façade that also accommodates private outdoor spaces. The articulation of this façade restores the monumentality of the demolished chapel.