Goirle / BAM-NIBE

This project was designed in the context of an architectural competition in which investors form a team together with architects and consultants. A linear site, along an important highway near Goirle, needed 160 apartments of different types. Sustainability obviously needed a lot of attention in the competition, including a special focus on acoustical measures, necessary because of the adjacent highway. Linearity and urbanity aren’t easy to combine. Ingredients such as urban squares, curving city-avenues, fan-shaped building structures, architectural identities mixing different scales and recognisable housing entries were incorporated in an abundant way. Furthermore, a variety of urban and non-urban landscapes were either hiding, or either focussing on the houses in such a way that the whole neighbourhood could slowly get discovered.