Bijgaardehof

site Bijgaardepark, 9000 Ghent, BE

client Cohousing groups Biotope, De Spore and Wijgaard, Wijkgezondheidscentrum Kapellenberg, Sogent

architect BOGDAN & VAN BROECK

team M. Czvek, V. Ionescu, M. Pawlowska, S. Poot, W. Riche, E. Vandenpoel, S. Verstraete, T. Willemse

structural eng. NEY & Partners

technical eng. VK Engineering

landscape LAND

acoustics Daidalos Peutz

credits BOGDAN & VAN BROECK, LAND landschapsarchitecten

surface 9.375 m² gross

timing masterplan 2016 | completion 2020

status tender

59 co-housing units and a community healthcare center on the industrial relict of the former Malmar factory in Ghent

Close to the centre of Gent, standing in the Bijgaardepark of the Sint-Amandsberg neighbourhood, the derelict Malmar factory – where nature has taken over – constitutes a dramatic scenery studded with graffiti’s from street artist Roa. A brick wall encloses a 11.500m² inaccessible plot. Surrounded by large commercial amenities in the North, the railways in the West, and a set of traditional row houses in the South-East, the style and scale of former warehouse contrasts with the local urban fabric. The site will foster an ambitious mixed program, bringing together three co-housing groups (Biotope – 19 units, De Spore – 15 units & Wijgaard – 25 units) with a community healthcare facility (Wijkgezondheidscentrum Kapellenberg).

As one of the largest co-housing projects in Flanders, the specificity of Bijgaardehof lies in the ambition to mutualise a set of functions overlapping at various scales: collective spaces within a single co-housing group, an atelier used by all the inhabitants, collective generation of renewable energy and use of resources and space; while bringing an added value to the residential neighbourhood and the city of Gent. Beyond a traditional design process, a transversal organisation bringing representatives of each housing group together allow them to reflect jointly upon multiple topics such as mobility, sustainability, mutualisation and more, in order to challenge the programme with bottom up participation and generate co-creation

--

legends

sequences of indoor and outdoor rooms

co-co housers

strategic action plan

axonometry

Heim's pilot project exhibition at deSingel (2017) - photo by E. Béchet

Plans

all credits: BOGDAN & VAN BROECK (except if mentioned otherwise)

--

Back to projects