August 15, 2016

Gistel in RIBAJ

‘The L-shaped building blocks cup the small public square with its red-clinker brick paving and picnic rug of grass, studded with young trees…The layout allows the existing building [a historic inn] its place and draws back the homes and their own small yards to the outer edge of the site to allow the courtyard-square that also generously opens out to the street, Tempelhofstraat. It seems of an earlier time, just another part of the town.’

 

‘Time and Place’, a review of Gistel social housing in RIBAJournal