Horizon in Knokke-Heist, Belgium by BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Horizon in Knokke-Heist, Belgium by BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

April 1st, 2015 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

ELEMENTARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL IN OPEN LANDSCAPE | OPEN CALL ORGANISED BY THE FLEMISH GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT, 2^nd LAUREATE

The historical permanent presence of the polder landscape is experienced as a quality of the site that is to be protected, and it is also used as a source of design choices. The typology of the school buildings is designed analogous to that of the polder farms as solitary volumes in the landscape. The outdoor space is structured as a landscape similar to the diverse and flexible patchwork of different fields in the polder.

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Architects: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK
Project: Horizon
Location: Angle formed by Kragendijk and Jan Devischstraat, 8300, Knokke, BE
Software used: Vectorworks, Sketchup, Rhino, Photoshop
Client: Municipality of Knokke-Heist
Surface: 3.157 m² gross
Budget: 4.210.000,00 euro excl. vat and fees
Timing: Competition design 2011
Status: Competition, 2^nd laureate
Team: T. Boogaerts, M. Czvek, T. Rigby, M. Steel Lebre

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By this way of combining the buildings and the landscaping “THE HORIZON” becomes a stimulating learning environment with a poetic and evocative volumetry, a school that deals respectfully with the landscape in which it is embedded. The school buildings themselves are thus not only an educational project and an ecological example, but can also be seen as a pilot project for possible further compaction of the polder landscape while maintaining its openness and enhance its ecological value.

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Tags: Belgium, Knokke-Heist

Categories: Photoshop, Rhino, School, SketchUp, Vectorworks

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