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Heritage and historical landscapes

We are skilled and pragmatic placemakers, village makers who peel back the layers of objects, buildings, landscapes and communities and rebuild them with empathy. AiT are time travelers who care for heritage while looking ahead.

Instead of romanticizing space, preserving it out of fear and leaving its only remaining role as a tourist attraction, we feel the need to make small or large interventions to reactivate monuments, landscapes, villages (and cities). In doing so, we give them a reason to continue existing and to create new history.

Saint-Martinchurch

Saint-Martinchurch

In the Saint Martin’s Church in Oombergen, a restoration of the exterior and a reconstruction of the Art Deco interior are planned. The works will begin in 2024 with the exterior restoration and the...

Begijnhof

Begijnhof

A few former houses at the edge of the beguinage were altered during the industrialization period and were listed as workers’ houses. After a careful evaluation of their historical value, it was deci...

Folies Park Breivelde

Folies Park Breivelde

Over the past decades, various architectural elements in the English landscape park of Breivelde have been gradually restored. The process began with the landscape redesign of the ice cellar. A major...

Hunnegem - elementary school

Hunnegem - elementary school

The former priory site of Hunnegem is divided among several stakeholders. The most historically valuable part has been repurposed to serve a museum function. The central wings accommodate various car...

Presbytery Ruiter

Presbytery Ruiter

As part of the energy optimization, the attic floors were insulated while preserving the original plasterwork, and the exterior joinery was carefully reconstructed. The stately rectory was stripped o...

Saint Francis Institution

Saint Francis Institution

Norman Castle Park Located in the upper basin of the Zwalm Valley, this neo-classical castle lies hidden within a protected village landscape. The site serves as the headquarters of the Saint Franci...

Multihousing Rozebeke

Multihousing Rozebeke

The village landscape of Rozebeke, with its Romanesque church, is protected and has in recent years become a quiet village with many vacant buildings around the church. The protected status has kept...

Room for contemplation in old chuchtower

Room for contemplation in old chuchtower

At first glance, the Saint Michael’s Church in Sint-Lievens-Houtem appears to be an ordinary 18th-century parish church, designed as a hall with two side aisles, a western tower, and an eastern choir...

Breivelde Castle

Breivelde Castle

At the end of the 19th century, a wealthy industrialist built a country house on a wooded spring area. Twenty years later, the distinctive design was romanticized and transformed into a Neo-Flemish R...