Mondriaan

Project Name
Mondriaan
Function
Residential development project
Surface
2.772 m² homes | 969 m² underground car park
Location
Ghent, Palinghuizen
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concept

This development project is situated on the outskirts of Ghent and consists of twenty-three multi-family dwellings and an underground car park.

Project Description

The site is adjacent to the Westerbegraafplaats cemetery on one side and the listed Rode Beukendreef building on the other. The development project was positioned at an angle to the avenue and at such a distance that its impact on the avenue and the rows of trees was minimized. The space is a beam shape measuring 52.5 × 18.5 × 10 m (L × W × H). It can be viewed as being a solid stone block into which large spaces have been hewn that lend it a more human scale. These recesses form the apartments’ outdoor spaces. A light-grey stone was selected so as not to detract in any way from the cemetery’s entrance gate. A large section of the land has been landscaped so that greenery and shrubbery along the avenue extends onto the site.