Prinsenpark
Prinsenpark is a landscape Park in the North of Antwerp. The architects developed a master plan for the main entrance landscape infrastructure and designed a new visitor center that replaces the outdated existing buildings of Prinsenpark.
The new center brings together the parks’ administrative offices, its forestry depot and workshops, and visitor facilities in an ensemble of two buildings with pitched roofs. In between the Kastelse Dike that cuts the landscape in a long straight line, and the edge of the oval woods, two volumes define an enclosed space that serves as a yard for the foresters. Large pitched roofs overhang to create an entrance, a covered outdoor space, or a protected work area. Reminiscent of the 18th-century experimental farmsteads that were developed in this area to cultivate this former peatland, the building's specific geometry generates a variety of silhouettes.
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