dmvA Architecten | Sports hall KA Hiel

Fuente: dmvA Architecten

Fotografía: Frederik Vercruysse



Concept: do/play-building

The school-site KA Hiel acts as a green space in an urban context. The campus area features great differences in height as well as much diversity in buildings and pavilions. The constructions at the edges of the building block vary from attached houses to high solitary apartment buildings.

Down-scaling

According to the campus philosophy, the new sports hall is implanted as an autonomous object. By positioning it in the talus of this sloping terrain, it affects the building-volume as a method of downscaling.

The new sports hall shows a harmonious transition between the main building and the small-scaled nursery school. A natural incision in the sloping terrain provides the entrance to the sports hall.

dmvA Architecten | Swimming pool K

Fuente: dmvA Architecten

Fotografía: Frederik Vercruysse



Concept: panoramic swimming pool

Although the principal dreamt for years of a swimming pool in his small garden, he chose to renovate his 17th century gentleman’s house first.

While the contractors were about to start the works, the uninhabited school building, adjoining his garden, was offered for sale.

The principal did not hesitate, works were stopped and the school building was bought.

After many analyses and intense discussions it was decided to realise the swimming pool project first.