Homeless Accommodation

Ghent, Belgium

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Homeless Accommodation

Ghent, Belgium

Firm

architect Kurt Desoete

Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing
Government + Health › Community Center Aging Facility

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2014

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

Photos

Tim Van de Velde Photography (24)

'De Baai' (or 'The Bay') as it is called by the Public Centre for Social Welfare, is the residence for homeless people over 45 who are referred by a social worker from a reception home, hospital or psychiatric center. The original building has 20 rooms with shared facilities and a limited number of common areas with few facilities for staff.

The extension to the building provides for 12 new rooms, each with private bathroom, a new entrance hall with reception room, private speaking room and elevator, complementary functions such as offices, canteen and toilets for staff, a meeting room for 12 persons, a dining room with kitchen for 32 people, several storage rooms, a laundry room and an outdoor area with bicycles.

The building is conceived as a 'Passive House', which requires superinsulation, airtightness, heat recovery ventilation, solar gains...: annual heating and cooling demand < 15 kWh/m².year; total primary energy consumption for heating, hot water and appliances < 120 kWh/m².year; the building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the house volume per hour (n50 ≤ 0.6/hour) at 50 Pa.

Architecture: association of architect Kurt Desoete and L8 Architecten bvba