RE-VILLAGE
“One building is architecture, but two buildings is townscape.”
– Gordon Cullen
Architecture is part, the town is whole. The whole is visible in the void.
Urbanity is shaped void. Like building in the city, building in the village is reverse
architecture. It is thinking about what is not there, about what you leave open.
The void, the outside, the open space, the public space is the actual inside of the village.
The main purpose of the assignment was redefining and improving the relationship between the town of Gooik and the surrounding landscape, as a counter reaction to the increase in ribbon development in Belgian towns.
MSc AR – first year – January 2023
ACTIVATING THE LANDSCAPE
Along the town’s main street, we created qualitative meeting spaces as invitations into the landscape. A co-living, a residential care home and pavilions for social gatherings were added to the site. They serve as primary elements that attract people and give a new identity to the changing face of Gooik.
We developed a compact housing prototype, which can be adjusted to fit the specific needs of the inhabitants.
