Integrating the new program with maximum respect for the landscape, is the main challenge in this project. Living in a qualitative and sustainable way are required, at the same time it’s important to secure the perspective, the view over the fields. To achieve this, attention has been paid to the following subjects: the position of the new buildings, creating a compact footprint of the buildings, typological choices for living and parking and other sustainability measures. The new public domain indicates added value to the open space of the near environment.
The different typologies are mixed up, and so are the new residents. This leads to a mixture between different people. Young people will find a home here as well as elderly, at the same time there is room for family housing. By pushing the, new build, buildings to the north edge as much as possible, the quality of the street as a walking and cycling path is optimized. In the created environment collective parking is provided, this means there is room for a sidewalk and a terrace in front of every door with a wide view over the fields.
Building compact in a wide landscape
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Status: 1st prize competition 2019
Team: Johan De Wachter, Marco Moretto, Nicolette Marzovilla, Anneke Wisse, Patricia Mata Mayrand, Rik de Vooght
Client: SHM Ninove Welzijn
Location: Denderhoutem, BE
Program: 24 houses and apartments, parking, public space
Dwarsstraat
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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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