Ryhove Museum Ghent is a lovely 18th century town mansion in Belgium that connects with a newer wing built in 1992 and a third wing named Leten House that dates all the way back to the 16th century. To expand on this and make the addition sustainable, designers from Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have collaborated to create a way to blend styles while making construction of the new wing sustainable. Bricks will be built from recycled construction waste, and the new building will have much more transparent façade to welcome visitors in and engage the public in a modern, welcoming style of museum.
“Museums are facing increasing challengers to connect visitors to their collections,” said Andy Groarke, director of Carmody Groarke. “We were therefore very inspired by Design Museum Gent’s ambition to create a new building that makes a visit to their museum relevant, inviting and accessible to all.”
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The new wing will be accessed between the Leten House and and old townhouse that currently serves as a restaurant.
“We wanted to create a building that is civic in character at both street level and on the Gent skyline and designed a new ‘house’ for the museum as part of the set piece of the historic streetscape,” explained Groarke.
This entrance will lead to a ground floor community space, which the designers hope will become a local meeting place. The three stories above the entryway will be created with modular interiors for flexible use over time. The fourth floor will contain a gallery with skyline views of Ghent.
The design of the new museum extension was created to follow the principles of circularity, sustainability and innovation. Sustainable materials were used wherever possible, and using a grant from Circular Flanders, the museum has created its own initiative to process construction waste and turn it into bricks for the building. These are laid around a CO2-neutral timber frame. Meanwhile, a unique grid of sensors will stretch through the building to help with multifunctional ceilings, floors and walls. Smart building technology will control lighting, sun blinds and other energy-saving technologies.
The bricks will be researched for durability before being used. One material is being researched by StoneCycling from Amsterdam and another by Local Works Studio from the U.K. and BC Materials. They have different approaches to developing circular bricks, the StoneCycling process focusing on baked facing bricks from 40% clay and 60% waste material. The other team is making facing bricks from lime and earth and they are pressed instead of baked. This reduces CO2 during production. The former process produces a darker brick, which might be a challenge given the museum’s goal of creating a pale stone color with a particular texture. Both brick styles will be lab tested for frost resistance and strength before certification.
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