(Image: Cohousing Drongen by Annelien Nevens, Christoph Zacharaski and Louis Carlier © University of Ghent)
Exhibition

Atelier As Found

From 6 to 17 March the Flanders Architecture Insitute presents the student works from five different architecture schools with their interpretations of the “as found”.

6 March 2024 - 17 March 2024
DE SINGEL (Wandelgangen)
Antwerp

New perspectives on adaptive reuse

Architecture schools in Flanders and Brussels are presenting their works in the corridors of DE SINGEL, in the framework of the exhibition As Found: Experiments in Preservation. With this, the Flanders Architecture Institute makes space for new perspectives on adaptive reuse. In parallel to the experimental approaches in the practice of architecture, student works. The shift from designing new buildings from scratch to intervening in the existing structures is not a reality only in the field of architectural practice, but also in education. Either with a focus on sustainability, circularity, heritage, collective memory or spatial and structural quality, architecture schools are contributing to the discourse on the transformation of the existing building stock.

Doors for Sale by Rik Sels, Dennis Voronin and Jules Willems (University of Antwerp)
Cohousing Drongen by Annelien Nevens, Christoph Zacharaski and Louis Carlier (University of Ghent)

Participating studios and seminars

  • University of Hasselt, Faculty of Architecture and Arts – Genius Loci (Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Karen Lens and Joshua Kempen)
  • VUB, Architectural Engineering – Habitat and Heritage (Ann Verdonck and Evi Corne)
  • KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture Sint Lucas Ghent – Structural Contingencies (Caroline Voet)
  • University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences – Uninvited Friends (Bart Hollanders, Jan Degeeter and Maximiliaan Royakkers)
  • University of Ghent, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture - A Dense Suburbanity for Drongen (Dirk Somers and Merijn Muller)
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opening lecture

Emily Wickham – Assemble

On 5 March Emily Wickham of the London-based collective Assemble opens Atelier As Found, an exhibition of student works from Flanders and Brussels focusing on adaptive reuse. Wickham will share projects of Assemble and ideas behind them, with regards to dealing with the existing.

Audio recording double lecture

Listen to the audio recording of the lecture.(language: English) During the recording, watch ambience images of the evening programme.

(Image: noAarchitecten, Het Steen, Antwerpen © Kim Zwarts)

exhibition

As Found

The exhibition As found focuses on the new relationship between contemporary design and heritage. Using experimental, groundbreaking, (inter)national examples, the exhibition explores the different positions that contemporary designers adopt in relation to existing buildings.

> until 17.03.2024

more about the exhibition

Practical

date

06.03.2024-17.03.2024

vernissage

05.03.2024 at 8pm

location

DE SINGEL (Wandelgangen)
Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp

admission

Free, no registration.

production

Flanders Architecture Institute in collaboration with DE SINGEL and UHasselt

WITH SUPPORT OF

the Flemish Community