The expert jury awarded the UAntwerp Horse Market site because it is a real model file:
Colleague Barbara Arts looks back on the journey and remembers that adapting the historic buildings to current thermal and acoustic comfort requirements while not losing sight of the heritage value of the campus and the guidelines of Real Estate Heritage was the biggest challenge for her.
The team also had a nice task ahead of them in terms of fire engineering. They are confident that their advice will allow the students to move safely between the old and new building parts.
The Paardenmarkt site was part of the grant-funded research project "School building projects tendered circularly? Yes we can!" from Flanders Circular. Colleague Katrien Van Lierop and the UA hope to use their lessons learned to encourage a broad (construction) public to build more circularly.