The Flax Garden

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Compact residential volume creates space for a green public garden.

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Status: 1^st prize competition 2015
Team: Rik De Vooght, Maria Cànoves, Rutger Boydens, Krystyna Warsinska-Fivez, Bart Van Elteren, Sofia Vacas, Johan De Wachter
Client: SHM Ninove-Welzijn
Location: Kuurne, Belgium

Program: 34 appartements and stacked houses, 45 underground parkingspots and a public citypark

The Flax Garden

By building more compact inside the building block adjacent to the central square of Kuurne, our proposal creates space to design a new space that completes the public network in the core of the village. The new ‘Flax garden’ becomes a high quality public space, the green counterpart of the church square. With the realization of this new space a logic and accessible route appears in the center of the village. The garden is a meeting point, the adjacent new housing development profits from the new green space. The new village garden could be considered as a little part of the Vlaspark in the center of the community. “Welcome in the Flax Garden!”

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Sofía Vacas Sánchez

Sofia was born in the region of the paella in Spain, Valencia. Musician since she was 6 years old, she decided instead to study architecture. That brought her to RDVA as an intern with a Leonardo da Vinci program. She stayed later as a worker in RDVA and while trying to learn the language of the country as a hobby found a spanish-speaking belgian husband. This was for her the perfect reason to stay and start her family in Belgium. In the office you can ask her about parking regulations or details of a stair, but you will find her more comfortable behind a sketch-up model while being busy with design and thinking how space can be used and better organized for the people to live in.

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