Reconversion of Hasselt Beguinage

Beguinages are delicate and refined environments in which the sequence of scales and the privacy gradient are very precisely designed. We wish to monitor that sensitivity and, where possible, to restore it. We do not design one space, but we do have a number of subspaces with a strong visual link: the church ruin, the beguinage corner and the garden of Z33 form their own, subtle identities in the flowing space of the garden.
In the beguinage houses, the students of the University of Hasselt are given a place to live and work in. We make sober interiors where large furniture solves contemporary problems in a compact way. The room structure of the beguinage is being restored by new, functional volumes.