Malpertuus Veterinary Clinic in Heusden, The Netherlands by Jan de vylder architecten

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Four vets want a new clinic. A new clinic for consultations; with a lab and operating facilities, organised in a very particular way. One part open to visitors, with consulting rooms; a pharmacy; a reception desk and a waiting area and a lab area with echo and CT scan; and an operating theater and short-term stay facilities for animals Plus administration and overnight-stay facilities.

Exterior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

• Architect: Jan de vylder architecten / Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck
• Name of Project: Malpertuus Veterinary Clinic
• Location: Heusden, The Netherlands
• Client: Dac Malpertuus
• Year: 2006-2009
• Photo: Filip Dujardin

Exterior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

• Area: 400 m²
• Type: Private
• Program: Veterinary clinic with consultation rooms, a pharmacy, a lab area with echo and CT scan, with an operating theatre and short-term stay facilities for animals.
• Structural engineering: Arthur De Roover Structureel Ontwerp, Gent
• Safety coordination: Piet Naeyaertbvba, Aalter
• Shell of the construction: BouwondernemingVerfailliebvba, Beernem
• Façade: Jan Van de Walle, Gistel
• Roofing: De Loof R. bvba, Beernem
• Carpentry: Vandenberghe, Beernem
• Finishing: Van Eeghem bvba, Sint-Amandsberg
• Electricity: Algemene Elektriciteit Braeckman Kristof, Wetteren
• Heating: Airco Lemmens bvba, Destelbergen
• Furniture: Roose & Ternier bvba, Gent
• Status: delivered

Interior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

For vets, the clinic is a ‘practical building’. Because a building could be said to be ‘necessary’. It must be practical in terms of ‘use’, but also in terms of ‘maintenance and hygiene’ with an appropriate budget.

The vets want this clinic in the neighborhood in a residential district right in the middle of it where people live and animals – they go together. The clinic will be next to a dwelling, a dwelling that used to be a farmhouse.

Interior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

Organisation,Use,Maintenance,Hygiene,Budget as if it were just about function – not taking the farm into consideration. Or maybe we should actually take it as a starting point. As an ‘extra’, we come up with a simple linear plan; in which the three parts of the plan are in a neat row; or end up piled neatly on top of each other. A central corridor that crosses the waiting area shows the way around the building.

All that under a moving roof line that delineates the building in the context of its surroundings like stables adjoining a farmhouse  in wood.

Interior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

The shell of the construction as finished product. How can we do that in such a way that the shell of the construction is no longer just a shell; but a building only by using brick. Building in bricks – but maybe different to what we are used to; but just laying bricks…so that it will maybe be like wallpaper as if it was ornamental.

Interior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

Interior View (Images Courtesy Filip Dujardin)

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Tags: Heusden, The Netherlands

Category: Clinic

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