산업단지 재개발 프로젝트의 일환, 새로운 오피스 빌딩은 기존 장소; 인프라와의 효율적인 연계를 바탕으로 지역경제 문화 활성화를 위한 오피스 빌딩으로 제공된다. 운하를 따라 형성된 가로환경에 연직방향으로 배치된 건축물은 주변환경; 인접한 기존 공장 및 외부공간과의 조우와 내부 오피스랜드스케이프의 합리적인 비즈니스 환경을 구성한다. -남 북으로 리니어한 빌딩, 센터형 코어는 직원들의 사무공간을 동서 방향으로 배치하게 된다.- 여기에 오피스 빌딩의 건축적 특징을 적나라게 보여주는 버티컬 스트라이프 패턴과 버티컬 핀은 산업단지내 오피스 빌딩의 지향점을 구현하는 동시에 지속가능한 내부공간을 확보한다.
reviewed by SJ
The former post office site in Aalst was a mixture of industrial
buildings of the former ‘Filature du Canal’. The “Filatures & Urban
Fabric(s): Masterplan stationsomgeving Aalst” masterplan, designed by
the Christian Kieckens Architects, started from a site conversion,
whilst keeping the main building of the former mill in the Manchester
building along the Vaartstraat. The modifications to this building have
been kept to a minimum because of organisational and programmatic
interpretation, which corresponds with the scale of the building. The
facades have been cleaned and re-pointed and equipped with new outside
joinery work after its historical model. The building has been renovated
on the inside also, in order for it to comply with current regulations,
without however interfering with the warehouse’s authenticity.
Architects: Abscis Architecten
Location: Werfplein, Werf, Aalst, Belgium
Design Team: Vereniging van Studiebureaus
Area: 12,000 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Thomas de Bruyne
The new office blocks are strip shaped units, inserted in a north-south
direction, guaranteeing the best east-west direction for the offices.
The buildings are built perpendicularly onto the linear infrastructure
elements (such as the river Dender, the railway line and the roads),
strengthening its kinetic perception and resulting in a dynamic image of
new buildings in an attractive, modern architecture against a backdrop
of old factory units. The building is cut in two using a public internal
road, which creates a shortcut to the train and bus station. It is on
this public internal road that the main entrances to the buildings are
located.
The office strips can be divided into smaller entities of ca 500 m²,
guaranteeing the very best flexibility and the possibility to lease
office space to several public and/or private office users. The raised
computer floors and lowered, activated ceilings enable different uses of
its office space, from meeting rooms and cockpits to open plan
offices. Whereas the existing Manchester building is characterised by
its weight and solidity, the new office strips are light, full of
dynamism and transparency. They were interpreted as mostly glass units,
equipped with blinds with coloured slats. These slats are kind of a
second façade around the layer of buildings, patches of coloured textile
as it were, referencing at the same time to the industrial past of this
site as a mill. The Werfplein facade is the only facade which can be
seen from the front. Here the coloured slats are intensified and only
sporadically interrupted by big windows with a view on the Werfplein.
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