Community Center Edegem Building, Belgian Timber Architecture Photos, Belgium Prefab Design
Community Center Edegem Building
27 October 2021
Architects: MKA Marc Koehler Architects
Location: VTC Library, Edegem, province of Antwerp, Belgium

Photos by Dennis de Smet and Maikel Samuels (drone images)
Community Center Edegem Building in Belgium
Community Center, Edegem – October, 2021 bourgeois 19th century house, a rectory and an environment of historic garden walls with enclosed gardens. This makes the surroundings radiate a certain tranquility, even though it is right in the historic centre.
The open, transparent architecture and the positioning of the building provide new vibrancy to the streetscape and create a unity with Huis Hellemans, the garden and the presbytery with historic garden walls. What used to be a neglected and dark parking lot location that residents didn?t like to visit has now become a warm place where everyone feels welcome.
The building is designed by Marc Koehler to be future proof. Bookshelves can be replaced by audio visual media and hybrid forms of working-, reading- and meeting spaces. Through this investment in community infrastructure, the aim was to maintain the livability and viability of Edegem?s historic center as an inclusive place for all ages.

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