Community Residential Sustainability
‘Rinkkaai’ will become a new city district for a variety of users, an intergenerational neighbourhood with a mix of housing typologies and facilities for young families with children, couples, co-housers and seniors with or without need for care. The design aims to create a new community that is connected to each other and to its surroundings. It is part of the project Ghent St. Pieters, located along the Fabiolalaan close by St. Pieters station in Ghent.
The site’s location along Fabiolalaan and in the east of the park Blaarmeersen offers a quiet green surrounding and establishes connections between the city and the park, between living and leis...
- Location
- Ghent, Belgium
- Client
- Alides NV, Nacarat SAS, Cores Development NV
- Year
- 2014 - Ongoing
- Status
- Ongoing
- Program
- 28.400 m2 Mixed-use housing development: 6 residential buildings with 311 residences, 1.100 m2 commercial facilities, 10.980 m2 of parking, bicycle storage, technical facilities and storages
- Disciplines
- Architecture
- Urban Design
- Collaborators
- Engineering: Establis (stability)
- Engineering: VK Engineering
- Architecture: Saison Menu
- Public space: Fris in het Landschap
- Communication: Common Ground
- Awards
- Competition 1st prize