Designed by Stéphane Beel Architects, There is a new multi-story car park on the Arenberg III campus, between the IMEC site and the KU Leuven Computer Science building. The IMEC and KU Leuven sites each have their own urban-planning logic. On the south side of the Kapeldreef lies the site of the KUL, where the buildings have been erected in a strictly orthogonal manner, not parallel to the Kapeldreef. On the north side, there is the cluster of IMEC buildings, a cluster that grew more organically.
Photography: Luca Beel
The car park has been placed parallel to the Kapeldreef, the road it connects to directly. The car park will be used by both parties and as a result, will be put into service in this way. It is an intermediary between both parties, an interchange that serves both. The car park replaces parking spaces on the ground level with stacked parking spaces. This ensures reduced land use.
The design is a narrow and long building that opens up the Computer Science building behind it, which creates space for planting trees and which manifests itself towards the Kapeldreef, along with which employees and visitors enter the IMEC and KUL sites. The building has eight stories above ground (7 levels + roof level). There is room for 740 cars in the car park and for 210 bicycles in the bicycle shed. In the area between the car park and the Computer Science building, clusters of trees have been planted that act as a natural filter between the building and its surroundings.
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