Melopee School
Melopee School is a multi-use building located within the Ghent Docklands, an area based on a masterplan by Rem Koolhaas' OMA.
Melopee School, The project by the award-winning architect aims “to offer a notion of centrality to the linear plan developed by O.M.A. in which green open pockets alternate with dense construction […]. In order to counter the lack of space, deal with the inside-outside complexity of programs and allow for the public path to pass, the maximum building envelope is divided in two halves: one compact building housing all interior functions, and an outside space […]. In between both, and under a first level playground realized in glass tiles, the path crosses the volume. A galvanized steel skeleton unifies the two halves. On the side of the interior volume, the façades of the building are designed as a patchwork of opaque and translucent polycarbonate, glass, and aluminium louvres. The outside structure will be overgrown with vegetation climbing along a steel mesh, in which some large ‘windows’ are cut out.”
Melopee School by XDGA Xaveer De Geyter Architects