Architects: BURO II
Location: Wingene, Belgium
Structural work and surroundings: De Coene Construct nv
Safety coordination: Safety Control
Earthworks: Ivan Declercq
Roofing: Sanividak bvba
EPIC (Energy Performance and Interior Climate) reporting: Feys bvba
Site Area: 3,604 sqm
Project Area: 1,980 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Klaas Verdru
Wvi has chosen to commission a multipurpose building, a business centre in Hille Zuid as a response to the persistent shortage of plots and the need for smaller business premises.
The business centre in Hille Business Park is made up of two buildings (HilleFront and HilleSide). The relation between the two buildings is obtained through a carefully designed urban plan. The selected floor plan is simple and rectangular allowing for the best potential in terms of efficient use of space and divisibility into six individual modules. Flexibility is the basis of the concept: these modules vary from 144 m² without a first floor level to 540 m² with a 105 m² first floor level.
Consistency was also one of the key principles in the architecture of the business centre buildings. Both buildings have the same simple shapes, facade plan and materialisation. Sustainable materials were used for the buildings.
Car parks are provided on the edges of the site, albeit that they are frequently interrupted by a green area. As a result the entire central area can be optimally used for the implantation of the buildings, roads and the associated manoeuvring space. The presence of green areas contributes to an optimal spatial situation which also respects the surrounding areas.
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AND?… (what a pathetic joke)
Very sleek, elegant, and nicely executed!
I’m obviously not in the biz, but what are the insulating qualities and structural stability of plastic walls? I see them used many times in homes and wonder about them.
cars should go around it. its going to be total havoc trying to enter and park in peak hours.
and the walls are not going to stay in that pristine shape for long. cars, forklifts, trucks, vans, people, all are going to smash those corners/doors, etc.
besides those functional issues, it seems well constructed.
well done.
I don’t know, Civitras, I guess they can just patch things up with saran wrap? :)
AT FIrst I Thought it was Herzog & De Meuron’s LABAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS..
but the I’ve looked at the corner detail and I remembered they used perspex.. and that the polycarbonate was colored.
ahm, 1 year and humidity will make it full of fungus, yep.
somebody know the material of de facade?.
I can see the idea of transparency between inside this office and outside… this transparency organized by huge windows and translucidity of policarbonate walls… But finally it looks like fashionable factory…
I’d imagine it is a double facade where the polycarbonate is braced back to a stud wall. So the insulation is from the wall and not so much the polycarbonate….unless they filled it with Nanogel or something. I’ve seen companies that make tongue & groove polycarbonate planks. There are probably clips evenly spaced behind the panels that tie back to the stud wall. Isla has a point. Depending on how it is detailed, condensate may form in the cells, and dirt may get in them as well.
if is a polycarbonate, what happend with the aislation problem?, maybe is a special material….or maybe not…
thanks