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Elderly Care Campus / Areal Architecten

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

" Nursing homes and other social services are often interpreted according to the same pattern: countless rooms linked together by long corridors . Such a scheme is a victory for the functionality of these buildings , but a defeat for the domesticity of it . In care area Mayerhof the limits of this rational scheme are questioned, while space is created in which a community can grow. Various additions of communal and open areas add to the domesticity of the place. By positioning the nursing home in a figure of eight on the site an infinite circulation that connects all the rooms on every floor with each other arises.In this functional diagram however, places where social interaction arises are inserted . At each corner of the figure open spaces create space for interaction.

School extension in Antwerp / Areal Architecten

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Like the existing school (a modernist volume from the 50’s) embraces the main playground, the extension is positioned in a way that areas of security arise in its inner corners. The new volume integrates the pragmatic logic of the school campus, but not without creating some witty and special interventions adding functional value. The school is designed as a robust rectangular volume, an orthogonal stacking of classes, with excavations made with extreme precision. Facing the street a covered outdoor area is inserted that accentuates the main entrance and through the middle of the building an atrium opens up visibility from the playground to the wide green west of the building. The latter is complimented with a central void that unifies each level and seeds abundant natural light. Through these interventions a public space is created inside the school building, with vistas and social control that a real school community assume.

House in Wilrijk / Areal Architecten

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As a final point, the sculptural volume which overcomes the typical Flemish house was build at the end of a row of dwellings. The systematic facade behind which the neighbouring houses are hidden is in the project broken by split-level floors wrapped into a facade with random openings.

Courtyard House VW / Areal Architecten

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The task involves building a spacious family home in rural Affligem, near Brussels. The area with a width of 25 m has a significant height, rising to the rear of the plot. The wishes of the client and the optimum utilization of the potentials of the plot led to the design of a large volume that reaches to the boundaries of the building plot.

House LV / Areal Architecten

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The aim of the project was to create a spacious family house in the village of Haacht. The orientation and the narrow plot lead a plan L-shaped around a terrace overlooking the street. The living spaces, located on the ground floor, consist of a large living room and a kitchen in its purest form : a large work table of 8m long, holding its opening on the street.