Dominican Cloister Transformation, Antwerp, Belgium

The Dominican Monastery was a closed system: it en- gaged the world by taking a distance. We are now asked to turn the – by definition isolated – monastery into an accessible, multifunctional meeting place aimed at innovation and production of knowledge. The walled, closed architecture of the complex needs to become transparent, open. We propose to open the Dominican Monastery to the city by literally showing its interior to the outside: a new ur- ban passage connects the different parts of the complex, linking the entrance on the Ploegstraat to the entrance on the Provinciestraat and creating... Mehr ...