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Project for an extension
to an existing school
complex providing
professional training
for the disabled
/ Nivelles
(Walloon Brabant province)
/ 1982–1983
This project, consisting of workshops, a kitchen and
a restaurant, is situated on a sloping and highly irregular
piece of land, which Samyn puts to good use through
a very ‘organic’ articulation of the volumes that he
unites through the organisation of the shapes and
the modulation of the facades. These semi-industrial
facades were intended to be clad in materials produced
by the students themselves, including metal panels,
wood, plastic and glass. This is a foreshadowing of the
patchwork theory in architecture, which is discussed in
the first part of the present volume. Here we also find a
symmetrical, balanced structure within an asymmetrical
layout, which the general organisation of the space
demands. This type of layout is used often in Philippe
Samyn’s work.