By organizing the new housing in a more compact way, our proposal creates room for new public space. Instead of the proposed row houses of the master plan, we suggest to apply the ‘grain’ of the Dornik area for the new development, a mix of semi-detached houses and compact blocks of three units each. At the park the new apartment building frames the park and, at the Dornik side, presents itself as a light and compact housing volume. The park villa is positioned as one permeable building floating above the green central public space.
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Dorniksquare & Park villa
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Status: start construction 2016, 1st prize competition 2013
Team: Johan De Wachter, Rik De Vooght, Sofia Vacas, Elina Jakovele, Andrius Kalinauskas, Pepijn van Voorst, Rutger Boydens
Client: SHM Geelse Huisvesting
Location: Geel, BE
Team: Johan De Wachter, Rik De Vooght, Sofia Vacas, Elina Jakovele, Andrius Kalinauskas, Pepijn van Voorst, Rutger Boydens
Client: SHM Geelse Huisvesting
Location: Geel, BE
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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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