WISTIK Library & Kindergarten / TOOP architectuur + Steven Vandenborre Architects

Curated by Paula Pintos

Architects: Steven Vandenborre Architects, TOOP architectuur
Area: 617 m²
Year: 2018
Photographs:Tim Van de Velde
Manufacturers: Alucobond, Wienerberger
Landscape: TOOP architectuur, Steven Vandenborre architecten
Engineering: Stedec nv

Text description provided by the architects. Eksaarde, a village part of the City of Lokeren needed a new recognition point. A place to gather. A place where one could meet. The program: a kindergarten and a library. Close to the villages’ center, family houses, schools, an elderly home, the site rather feels like a park. We wanted to create a project, very subtle embedded in the park. A building that feels like it was already there but above all, one that was open to the public. Even more, a building that creates opportunities to meet. The program of the building feels at first sight very contradictory. At one side the library. A place that is rather quiet but open. At the other side the kindergarten. Very strictly regulated but noisy and playful.