Nursing home A. Lacourt will free up space in its west wing for a new daycare center. With a transformation within the existing casco phase 1 of the daycare will be realized. The second phase is planned as a new addition to the existing building. With this transformation Ostend expands its social-cultural facilities in this area and the nursing home opens up to the neighborhood. In the courtyard kids and elderly can play together.
The Chameleon
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Synergy between young and old
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Status: 1st prize competition 2013
Team: Johan De Wachter, Rik De Vooght
Client: City Oostende
Location: Ostend, BE
Team: Johan De Wachter, Rik De Vooght
Client: City Oostende
Location: Ostend, BE
The Chameleon
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Rik De Vooght
Rik studied at the Caholic University of Leuven from where he graduated as an engineering architect. He starts his career with an internship at Jo Crepain Architect N.V. and works as a project executive, and later as a projectmanager, for various projects at home and abroad. Together with Allard Schwencke, Rik founded Open Architecten bvba, where he was project and responsible manager of various projects in Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal. In 2011 Allard Schwencke he founded his own architectural office: Atelier ASA. Rik then changed the name from Open Architecten bvba to Rik de Vooght Architecten bvba. In the mean time he also opened 2DVW Architecten bvba, together with Johan de Wachter (JDWA). 2DVW Architecten is an office for architecture and design specialising in large-scaled projects at home and abroad. The project “Pharmacy De Vooght” is nominated for the Belgium Building Awards, the National Steel Building Prize and is the Winner of the Architecture Night in 2007. In 2010, the urban development plan “balteau site in Liège will be awarded a shared first place of The international design contest Europan 10.
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