Office + house VE
The former headmaster’s house of the old municipal school in Steenhuize was converted into a childcare facility during the 1990s. The site is part of a protected village view. No historical heritage...
VBS Bavegem
The works are divided into three phases spread over ten years. In the first phase, the convent building was converted into a school. In the second phase, the playground was redesigned. Finally, by th...
Villa Rocco
Strengthening the village character by integrating village functions while maintaining scale. A distinctive post-war villa with neo-Gothic influences stands at a roundabout and forms the gateway to t...
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...
Projecto 2023 – Pragmatic and skilled village makers
Vicinus
A study was conducted to explore maximum residential densification on a former school site, with the context serving as a key factor in the configuration. The design is based on the concept of the ca...
Lievensplein
Shaping emptiness: from stage to installation. The fountain acts as the connecting element in the new kiosk, designed to enhance social cohesion. The design research resulted in an artwork as a new...
Café De Valk
Two friends bought the local village café, which had been for sale and vacant for ten years. On the upper floor, a holiday home was created to cater to cycling and walking tourism in the Flemish Arde...
AiT office + residence
A corner plot between two main roads forms the setting where AiT lives and works. After a journey of ten years, we are now settled. The old corner house once served as the town hall, post office, and...
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...
Beisloven Educational Center
This former community school building serves as a prototype for how circular transformation can be achieved. The main intervention consists of patios that create a link between the surrounding park a...
Sint-Jozefschool
Architecture is an important link in the didactic evolution from receptive knowledge transfer toward more interactive learning with individual trajectories, where the teacher becomes a coach who insp...
Kindergarten Broeders van Liefde
An elementary school in the center of Brakel is merging with local neighborhood schools. As a result, the main campus is being reorganized and expanded with a new kindergarten for approximately 150 p...
Collective housing 'Truweel'
This project is a response to decades of scattered building and subdivision. The residential courtyard involves the transformation of the former dancing venue “Truweel” in Sint-Lievens-Esse. The sit...
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...
Urban development HH
The starting point of the design is the development of a garden district with a true core for the hamlet of ’s Hondshuffel — an inviting and safe environment for pedestrians and cyclists. This new co...
Expo Connect
During the Day of Architecture 2019, Studio Arbor, AMAI, and AiT Architecten presented architectural projects and studies, artworks, and graphic designs inside and outside the church of Oombergen. Th...
Social House
Originally established as a hospital in the 1950s, the site was later partially transformed into a nursing home, municipal offices, and social welfare offices. Since 2018, parts of the complex have b...
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...
House AB
When architecture disappears into the landscape... This patio house behind a stately townhouse has been completely renovated and transformed. On a small plot, a compact three-story structure was cre...
Office GV
Farmstead between front and back garden A long-abandoned farmstead stands halfway across the site. The front garden is bathed in sunlight, defined by the atmosphere created by a large conifer and a...
Town garden
Through rational choices, years of reflection on the existing space, and a study of sunlight across the different seasons, this extension was developed. The existing house, located at the end of a ro...
House DVVB
An existing house and the remaining buildings of a former cattle feed company have been transformed into a single-family home with offices for a horticultural business. Seventy-five percent of the ho...
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...
Environmental educational centre Beisloven
Inverse cloister in the landscape In the conversion of a former school building into a nature education center, the main intervention is an outdoor circulation path that connects the park with the b...
House BdR
Bronze
This L-shaped studio serves as both an exhibition space and a residence for international artists. It also functions as a summer pavilion and a multipurpose area extending the main house. The studio...
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...
VBS Grotenberge
In 2016, the first phase of the school’s expansion began with the construction of a new sports hall and covered playground housed in a green volume. The media room, sanitary facilities, and entrance...
Gym IZOO
After the secondary school closed, the site was reorganized. A new master plan was developed, assigning the primary school a new location within existing buildings. These buildings were optimized for...
Knipperhoek
The client is an admirer of Willy Van Der Meeren, one of the most important post-war furniture designers, and owns one of his cabinets. The color palette of the façade was inspired by the colors of t...
Appartment K
THE SEA It is attainable for all Belgians For every Belgian, a little box with a view of the sea Our coast is monotonous, solid and strong Straightforward and rough like our sea, and therefore beauti...
Van Lierde
Showrooms of car dealerships often look alike: steel boxes with lots of glass. In exploring garages of the past, we discovered the Ford Garage in Zottegem by architect Lippens. The Art Deco–inspired...
Social housing - 10 units
The housing cluster is located in the village center of Hillegem, next to a primary school and across from the listed rectory. The surrounding buildings form a ribbon of detached, semi-detached, and...
Melkerijput
Densification in a rural village center: an old farmhouse on the property line along a main road could not be preserved and was replaced by a collective housing project with office spaces. The densif...
Multihousing Mill hill
Ten spacious housing units are connected in various ways around a central courtyard. The archetype of an ancient Flemish farmhouse serves as the inspiration for the colors and design. One wing along...
Reconversion old presbytery garden
In recent decades, efforts succeeded in protecting the presbytery garden and cemetery, ensuring that the green zone with its valuable trees was not replaced by housing developments. This protection p...
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...
De kracht van de plek
The play forest drOOmbergen is one of the socio-cultural projects we worked on for many years together with numerous volunteers. You can also find the project on our website under: Conversion of the...
Bernadetteschool
In 2014, the existing rehabilitation center was transformed into a primary school for special education, featuring a generous green outdoor area. Ten years later, in a second phase, the building will...
OLVC Grotenberge
A former convent site adjacent to a secondary school is being gradually renovated. The design choices are not always the most obvious ones. Valuable elements are carefully evaluated for potential reu...
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...
OLVC Bevegem
In 2014, the existing buildings were energetically renovated and expanded. Concrete degradation was thoroughly examined and repaired through carbonation testing. The structure was further reinforced,...
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...
Masterplan company horticulture
A former animal feed company on a ridge in the Flemish Ardennes later became an AVEVE and is now a garden and agricultural business. The tall silos and unusable sheds were partially demolished after...
Robust living
A villa with a large garden and a semi-detached house are being transformed into a residential cluster of seven diverse housing units, two shared spaces, and a combination of private and communal gar...
SBS Erwetegem
Living apart together VDS
Two houses, for the parents and their daughter respectively, are arranged around a central patio, forming a creative exercise within a traditional building envelope. The two dwellings are visually un...
Group housing VDW
Not demolishing impulsively is also a strategy for village-scale architecture and qualitative densification. An existing house with a party wall was expanded with additional residential units. The or...
House DD
When the clients’ grandmother visited for the first time, she said with genuine conviction: “But that’s beautiful!” The most meaningful compliment an architect can receive, and at the same time: “Mis...
