Brickworks vande moortel
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News • News • 1 Feb 2023
10 residences incorporating brick cladding
A brick facade expresses enduring strength. Brick can relate at once to antiquity and modernity. Historically handmade using molds and fired in kilns, bricks are imperfect products that are also strong and consistent: in the aggregate, bricks produce beautifully textured surfaces that from afar appear uniform, yet in close proximity reveal unique qualities of color and grain. The many residential brick cladding products on the market offer a seemingly limitless range of colors and textures that intend to achieve both homogeneity and a custom-made feel.
The raw material which forms the basis of bricks - loam - is typically a mix of sand, silt, and clay with the inclusion of various aggregates. Some manufacturers have replaced clay with lime... More
Project • By Boltshauser Architekten • Private Houses
Kopfholz
The new schoolhouse is situated north of the existing gymnasium on the asphalt forecourt of the current school. A beautiful group of existing scotch pine trees covers the gentle slope rising eastward from the school. The building is organized so that the four upper levels contain the classrooms and the lower level material storage and technical rooms. The main building volume holds four kindergartens and two classrooms with corresponding group rooms. Offices for the teaching staff, the school’s principal, and social worker, as well as a therapy room, a daycare equipped with a kitchen and a music room complete the school program. The symmetrical alignment of the simple and compact spatial organization of the school results in an almost c... More
Project • By WONKARCHITECTES • Cultural Centres
L'ArtChipel Cultural center
The modernization of services and culture-related equipment for the inhabitants of Meurchin is an important issue for the town. Placing a multidisciplinary space with a cultural and educational role at the center of the town’s life shows the determination of the municipality to invest into the future.
The new multicultural center takes place on an extremely narrow plot of the city central square, where the town hall, the schools, the village hall, posts office and, in the background, St. Peter's Church are grouped.
The project seeks to fit on a site that wasn’t - the building occupies the place of a vegetated embankment along a cemetery wall - in a context of both a traditional square in the city center, but also unusual, with the terra... More
Project • By a2o • Universities
LiZa
New education campus for the Department of Health Care
Today's health care - more than ever before - needs a strong link between the daily practice, education, research and society. With this in mind, the Institute of Higher Vocational Nursing Education in Genk, UC Leuven-Limburg institute of higher education and Oost-Limburg Hospital joined forces. Together, they constitute the first Limburg Health Care Academy (LiZa), which provides high-quality health care education in line with today's health care needs.
The LiZa site will comprise three health care campuses, spread across the three existing campus sites of Oost-Limburg Hospital. These health care campuses differ from traditional campuses by offering facilities for patients, sta... More