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Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants
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New Site for City Services - Ghent, Belgium
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Owner
Stad Ghent
Architect
Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs nv
General Contractor
Depret NV
Engineering Office
Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs nv
Construction Period 05/2011 - 04/2013
The new site for the city services contains offices, social facilities,
warehouses, workplaces, outside storage, parking spaces, green zones
and a parking building. The building is designed as a low energy building.
The specific shape of the building and the concept of the inner street is
the result of the energetic analysis, making optimal use of solar heat.
Due to the length of the building (280 m), it is divided into 3 separate
parts. The first is offices, social facilities and warehouses; the second is
workplaces and warehouses, and the remaining section is the parking
building. The layout of all parts is similar, and is constructed with 3 large
spans, respectively 16 m - 12 m - 15.5 m. The main roof beams and the
central columns of the inner street are made of tapered lamellar wood. For
the intermediate floor of the offices, a 14.5 m span was needed, made of
prestressed hollow core slabs with a total thickness of 46 cm.
The shape and orientation of the building, combined with the use of
slender concrete columns and large tapered wooden beams and columns,
results in a building where stability, architecture, functionality and
durability go hand in hand.
Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs nv
Contact
Tim Neels
Address Meulesteedsesteenweg 396
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Website
Bureau PARTNERS - Architecten & Ingenieurs sa, founded in 1987, is a
multidisciplinary study team of architects and engineers working in the
public and industrial sector.
Due to this complementarity, Bureau PARTNERS is able to approach
any problem from a wide variety of angles. This process results in a
sophisticated design and in a better balance between quality and cost for
each discipline.
