The current school on the site doesn’t match the current needs for comfort anymore and will be redeveloped. This is the moment to redefine the site and combine new housing with the new school. Six houses for young families will be realized next to the new school building. The site defines the border between the existing living neighborhood and the green park around Ronsevaal Castle and the nature resort the Gerstjens. It is the goal to integrate the new housing and the school in the existing neighborhood. The playground becomes the new neighborhood square, hosting activities for the school and for the people living around. Also the school building will act as a neighborhood center outside school hours. This ambition defines special conditions for the new school building and for the playground and public space. The height difference is considerable and offers dwellers a fantastic view over the green surroundings.
The Small Sablon
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Status: First place competition 2015
Team: Johan De Wachter, Andrius Kalinauskas, Rik de Vooght, Elina Jakovele, Maria Cànoves
Client: SHM Dewaco Werkerswelzijn and Aalst Municipality
Location: Erembodegem, BE
Team: Johan De Wachter, Andrius Kalinauskas, Rik de Vooght, Elina Jakovele, Maria Cànoves
Client: SHM Dewaco Werkerswelzijn and Aalst Municipality
Location: Erembodegem, BE
The Small Sablon
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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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