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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. Van Hoorebeke Timber Ghent in Belgium by TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a.May 16th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a. Connected to the seven seas thanks to the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal, the site on the quay links wood-producing countries with the continental market. Here, raw timber is unloaded, stored and processed before being transported over land. The scale of the port area dominates the docks, populated by ocean-going giants, squeezed between wind turbines and factories that only seem to grow bigger with distance.  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert
 Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert The reception building, housing the central administration, tops off the production site. Amidst seemingly never-ending storage buildings and the planing mill, it welcomes lorry drivers coming to pick up raw or processed wood, and clients visiting the site. Here, lorries, bulldozers and cars are left behind. Drivers must continue by foot. The realisation hits: they then move between objects at a scale incomprehensibly larger than mankind’s.  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert The programme completing the production site is tiny compared to the lumbering giants all around. Yet, it is essential for us humans to find our place. It provides shelter from the premises, a safe haven to return to at any time. Much like the site itself is a link on a global scale, so too is the building a link between the programmes on the site. The ground plan starts from a simple rectangle which is then refined into a prismatic shape dictated by circulation routes at the production site.  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert Beneath a gently sloping roof, the ground floor houses the reception, the cafeteria and meeting rooms of various sizes. Higher up, permanent working spaces offer a panoramic view over the industrial landscape. Roof, plates and floors are created from cross laminated timber. The chief material matches the stored timber shaping the company’s precincts.  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Image Courtesy © Stijn Bollaert  Site plan, Image Courtesy © TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a.  Plan, Image Courtesy © TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a.  Plan-1, Image Courtesy © TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a.  Section-AA, Image Courtesy © TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a.  Detailed section, Image Courtesy © TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw c.v.b.a.
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