Duiven municipality wants to develop Droo-Zuid to be at the center of a residential service area. The aim is to provide housing for both younger and older people who require some form of care, so they can live amidst their family, neighbours and friends. Together with the users and the neighborhood we developed ‘Huis van Droo’; a community centre ‘new style’ – the new heart of Droo-Zuid. The sports hall, situated in the center of the building, is wrapped with other public program. The neighborhood lounge, facing the entrance of the neighborhood, is the most public place in the building. The new kindergarten, care, and other neighborhood function are all positioned around the central hall.
Huis van Droo
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Community center 'new style'
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Status: completed January 2012
Team: Johan De Wachter, Marieke van Hensbergen, Kerem Masaraci, Joana Torres, Tiago Pinto de Carvalho, Louise Nedergaard Clausen
Collaboration: Vitruvius Consultancy, Companen, Willems Technisch Adviesburo, Bartels Ingenieursbureau b.v., Buro Bouwkunde
Client: Duiven municipality
Location: Duiven, NL
Team: Johan De Wachter, Marieke van Hensbergen, Kerem Masaraci, Joana Torres, Tiago Pinto de Carvalho, Louise Nedergaard Clausen
Collaboration: Vitruvius Consultancy, Companen, Willems Technisch Adviesburo, Bartels Ingenieursbureau b.v., Buro Bouwkunde
Client: Duiven municipality
Location: Duiven, NL
Program: 1650 m2 multifunctional accommodation with a gymnasium, neighborhood lounge, child daycare and para medic services
Huis van Droo
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Johan De Wachter
Johan de Wachter is an architect and founding partner at Woonwerk Architecten. He came to Rotterdam after his studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) and worked from 2000 to 2004 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/Rem Koolhaas) on various urban planning and architecture projects and competitions. In 2003 he founded Fün Design Consultancy and was a partner until 2005. In 2005 he founded Johan De Wachter Architecten and in 2011 he started 2DVW Architecten in Antwerp together with Rik De Vooght. In 2023, the agencies are given a new name. With the establishment of Woonwerk Architecten, the collaboration is given further shape. With Woonwerk, Johan works on projects at home and abroad.
Johan regularly teaches and has been, among others, a guest lecturer at Delft University of Technology, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg. He was appointed associate professor of urban design at Kaunas University of Technology in 2015. Here he leads the design studios with a specific focus on the integral transformation of former soviet residential areas (microrayons). Johan De Wachter was selected in 2014 for the “Europe 40 Under 40 Award”. This award recognized Johan as one of the 40 leading young design talents from Europe.
In addition to his work as an architect and teacher, Johan regularly sits on various committees and juries in the Netherlands and abroad. He is currently a member of the spatial quality committee in Breda (NL) and of the environmental committee in Tilburg (NL).
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