Author B-ILD
Year 2020
Location Herent
Surface 855 sqm
Client Municipality of Herent
Partners UTIL, STir
Photography Jeroen Verrecht
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Warot Building, designed and conducted by Brussels-based office B-ILD, is the latest addition to the public facilities of the village of Winksele. It hosts a wide range of activities in a carefully designed multifunctional hall.
The demand of the municipality of Herent for a new multi-purpose hall that can serve different functions was answered with an adaptable building that also strengthens the fabric of the village. The building connects people, functions and places and integrates them into a more intuitive whole.
The building is situated on an existing sports campus that is surrounded by rural landscape and public facilities. The large bay window and the covered outdoor space activate the adjoining fields for play.
It emphasises the new connection with the village and offers it a welcoming facade.
A bridge is positioned in such a way that it creates a new, soft connection between the existing sports facilities and the local school, child care and youth centre across the brook.
A bridge is positioned in such a way that it creates a new, soft connection between the existing sports facilities and the local school, child care and youth centre across the brook.
Six parallel beams generate spaces that can be interconnected or partitioned through the use of folding walls. These rooms are serviced by a wide corridor that hosts circulation, storage, and technical spaces. The interior space can be extended to the covered outdoor space by large sliding doors.
With these few tools, the multipurpose hall offers the village an open infrastructure where partitions can be moved and circulations multiplied to accommodate a wide array of activities. It was decided to strategically invest the available funds where most impact would be had: in the spatiality, adaptability and the structure.
Common materials were chosen for their simplicity, ease of construction, durability and ease of maintenance while assuring a low ecological impact.
Sand-coloured brick, brown concrete flooring, steel and metal ceilings are brought together through sensitive detailing to elevate their utilitarian nature.
The steel beams of the roof structure support a steel perforated corrugated sheet. The choice to perforate this structural sheet and keep it exposed ensures the acoustic quality inside the building.
Interior walls, made up of partitions and folding walls, assure future adaptability as the village’s needs evolve. For B-ILD, the emphasis on adaptability makes the project truly sustainable, assuring the building will remain meaningful for generations to come.
Warot Building aims to achieve a truly sustainable impact on the community for the long term. The process involved as many local actors as possible and sought to do the most with the limited means available.
Author B-ILD
Year 2020
Location Herent
Surface 855 sqm
Client Municipality of Herent
Partners UTIL, STir
Photography Jeroen Verrecht