Woningen en kinderdagverblijf Kostuumatelier

The redevelopment of the Costume Workshop in Van Luppenstraat to form a large crèche with five group and five passive houses is a design by Puls architects on commission to AG Vespa. The program is a nursery, dwellings, a neighborhood parking lot and the making of a public connection between the street and the backlying Green Quarter.

A collection of five groundbounded houses forms a street facade and completes the missing part of the jagged wall around the site. A house-wide opening provides access to the 'intramural' and announces the passage to the inner area. The contiguous stone patchwork of garden walls constitutes an enclosed courtyard, a secure framework for the new nursery. Shed roofs bring abundant light into the core of the crèche. The dense plan consists of parallel strips. All support functions are organized along the public passageway, while an enfilade of living groups has access to an enclosed playground on the other side.

This project is published in Flanders Architectural Review N°12: Tailored Architecture. The text was submitted to us by the architects.