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HORST anthill pavilion

Asiat Park, Vilvoorde, Belgium, 2024

The HORST Anthill Pavilion in Asiat Park, Vilvoorde, Belgium, was created for the Horst Arts and Music Festival. Designed to house Artist Afrah Shafiq’s video game installation ‘Where the Ants Go’ and the pavilion results from a collaboration between Afrah Shafiq, the RWTH Aachen University’s Junior Professorship “act of building” (aob), BC Materials and architect Jeremy Waterfield. The pavilion which was considered as a test design for BC Materials compressed earth blocks, also offered the opportunity to try reed as a façade material. Built by 45 RWTH students over two weeks of construction workshop in the framework of the annual Horst Ateliers, it showcases innovative, sustainable building practices in combination. The pavilion embodies a forward-thinking approach to architecture, merging vernacular techniques with new and rediscovered materials to create an expressive design that reflects future possibilities for sustainable construction while teaching students and professionals the material-specific craft techniques during its construction.

Client: HORST ARTS AND MUSIC, Vilvoorde, Belgium

Artist: Afrah Shafiq

Architect: Jeremy Waterfield

Construction design and execution: Theresa Zschäbitz (aob & BC architects) Bregt Hoppenbrouwers (BC materials) with the students of aob Junior professorship act of building RWTH Aachen University, Martha Vandemaesen (Democo)

Structural Engineer: buro kiss

Guest curator: Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director of Samdani Art Foundation and Chief Curator of Dhaka Art Summit

Fotografien von: Hannah Lemler und Eline Willaert