Studio Presentation 1MA 

Els Nulens, Wannes Peeters, 

1sth semester 2022

The village of
Gooik, a Flemish
village
Bo Janssens
Fauve Cornips
 • Little village centre
Gooik 1873 • more dense coverage by buildings in the centre
Gooik 1950
vs 2022
• Expansion in form of
“verlinting’’

• Lots of green space in

the area but completely
disappears in the
experience of the village
Filling in the space
Spacep

5.83%

9.32%

8
4
.
8
5
%

undeveloped residential area other

Who lives in Gooik?
People

1 1
8 8
, .
7 7
6 6
% %

59.26%

0 - 17 y 17 - 65 y 65+ y
Main roads
and
secondary
roads
Streetscene:
then vs now
• Predominant parking
needs for the cars with
their passage
• Messy streetscene
• Many different materials,
street profiles, garden
fencing…
Streetscene:
then vs now
• Lack of unity
• Street scene is
dominated by different
pavements
• 1 car vs 7 cars
Streetscene:
then vs now
• Street used to belong to
the people
• there was a more nature
in the streets
• Now the street is full of
cars, there is less greenery,
it is less safe for vulnerable
road users (no cycle paths,
cars on the sidewalk).
• Street only serves as a
thoroughfare
Street edges with open space
Possible green araes
Solution for badly run-down
public space
• Cars dominate the street
• Parking places on the road
• Makes you feel unsafe
• Advertising on facades
Solution for badly run-down
public space • Bringing green back into the
street

• Clear distinction between

public road and sidewalk
 Feeling safer

• No more messy streetscape

• Street forms a whole

Solution for badly run-down
public space

New street scene also gives a

different feeling of experience
Church catches the eye and
can be followed the entire way.
Different views
 • Interventions have been made
• First: focus on parking then: square with a high-quality residential
Dorpsplein space  but catering and retail remain absent, so focus is still on
parking.
• Cars do not make the village square inviting for shops and restaurants
The church: the
‘upraising’
Living
typologies
Southside Northside
Connected facade walls
Solitary buildings with front yard streets that are not parallel
to the street  orchestrated connections of the private lots

Dorpstraat  Open buildings in combination with continuous ribbons of buildings 

lack of unity
Building components of a
village • The ordinary, the
coherence
• Closed buildings
• Many outdated buildings
• Mainly simple workers'
houses with gable roofs
and straight windows
• Transition from public to
private happens almost
immediately
Annotatie arbeiderswoningen
Building components of a
village
• The ordinary, the
coherence
• Open buildings
• They show a new
morphology, houses in
presbytery style.
Annotatie pastoriewoning
Inventory
heritage
Building components of a
village
• The ordinary, the
coherence (public
buildings)
• the public buildings are old
rural farmhouses, some
also in presbytery style
• Most inventory heritage is
used fro public buildings
Annotatie landelijke fermette
Protected
Monuments
Very spread over the
village center  no
clear difference
between the center
and the rest
Protected Monuments
Important
buildings
Building components of a
• The buildings that do not
village fit, the unusual, the
difference
• a new morphology
unfolds in which
experiments are
conducted with, for
example, bay windows,
rounder shapes and
other divisions between
public and private.
Hidden front doors,
deeper front doors …
Annotatie unusual vs arbeiders woningen?
 The oridinary versus the unusual

Style, height, windows, Scale fits in Totally different style New building that does
building line not taken environment. Style not want to fit in with the
into account taken into account. environment
Roofscape
• Zadeldak / gable roof
• Zadeldak met
dakkappellen / dormer
roof
• Noordboomdak / hip
roof
• Mansarde dak/ Mansard
roof
The ordinary versus the
unusual

• flat roof jumps out of the

environment
Where do we park the car?

• Driveway
  • Garage
• Garage under the house
Parking
places

 Can we do
this
differently?
 Transition public -
private

• The frontyard
Transition public - private
Stairs
Transition public - private
Passage in the facade