2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

2606_concept Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

Laureate: Hideyuki Nakayama, LIST

The Frans Masereel Centrum is a graphic arts centre that specialises in printmaking and visual arts, located in rural Flanders, Kempen (Antwerp). The centre offers residencies and working spaces to national and international graphic designers, artists and critics who want to work with intaglio, relief printing, screen print or lithography. The centre, founded in 1972, was designed by the Belgian architect Lou Jansen. In 2013, an international invited architecture competition was organised for the design of a new pavilion hosting printmaking studios, an archive room, a workshop and a new public exhibition space. LIST (Paris) and Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture (Tokyo) were awarded first prize.
 
The new 420 m² pavilion completed in 2018, is an extension to the existing dome designed by Lou Jansen. The building stretches the existing centre towards the open landscape to the south and works together with the existing dome.
 
The Frans Masereel Centrum is a beautiful, yet constrained work environment. The task of adding a new pavilion requires to be both attentive to its architectural qualities, and prospective about its potential. The new building is neither an ode nor a critic towards the existing center. It tries, above all, to find rich complementary interrelations with the existing environment and to charge the space in and around it with new possibilities.
 
The designed pavilion acts as a Machikado. This Japanese word refers to a city-corner and is similar to a French Passage. Like a crossroads it concentrates and diffuses at the same time, encouraging equally interaction and isolation. The different dispersed spaces – such as the printmaking studio, where artists can concentrate on their work or the exhibition hall where visitors can wander around the displayed work – cross paths at the center of the new building.
 

Kasterlee OO2606

All-inclusive design assignment for a printmaking studio and public area (also for exhibitions).

Project status
Nominees