VZW Vijvens Care Home, Huise-Zingem,
Belgium, 2005-2011

This new, 88-room care home, is set in landscaped grounds in a rural village in Flanders. The building's concept is for three, three storey volumes to be organised around two central courtyards.

Residents' rooms are arranged in clusters around communal living rooms, creating a sociable and inclusive environment, and the atmosphere of a large household. Rooms all enjoy views to the surrounding open landscape or central garden. By optimising daylight and fresh air circulation, the residents’ experience a more comfortable and less conventionally ‘institutional’ setting.