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Site plan Section 1/200 Plan 1/200 Section 1/400 Villa Voka The - - PDF document
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Site plan Section 1/200 Plan 1/200 Section 1/400 Villa Voka The offjce building housing the Chamber of Commerce in West Flanders stands like a villa in the landscape of the urbanised edge of Kortrijk. The building is conceived as having two
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Villa Voka
The offjce building housing the Chamber of Commerce in West Flanders stands like a villa in the landscape of the urbanised edge of Kortrijk. The building is conceived as having two faces, like the Roman god Janus, showing distinctly dif- ferent aspects to the street and the garden. The representative façade on the street side, completely of glass, displays the organisation’s operations like a billboard in a giant concrete cabinet. The only elements within the open plan are the two prominent staircases. The entrance is on the more intimate side of the building facing the garden. Its V-shape frames a part of the landscape and embraces the entrance plaza with a lower-lying patio, around which all the public parts of the building are accommodated. Here Villa Voka forms the edge of the “meadow”, an
- pen place in the wooded landscape. Both the façade and the plaza are fjnished