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Willemen Groep
Boerenkrijgstraat 133, BE - 2800 Mechelen
tel +32 15 569 965, groep@willemen.be
 
School building De Wijnpers - Leuven
 

Project Details


Activities
Buildings
Education

Contractors
Willemen Construct

location
Mechelsevest 72
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Vlaams Brabant BE

Client
Provincie Vlaams-Brabant Directie Infrastructuur - Dienst Gebouwen

End User
School De Wijnpers

Architects
Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Engineering Office
Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Surface area above ground
2 500m²

Surface area subterranean
895m²

Construction period 
1 year 5 months

Start work 
01-2013

End of work 
06-2014


 

On Friday, 6 June 2014, the new school building for pupils of the first cycle was inaugurated on the campus De Wijnpers in Louvain.

The building consists of a six-storey block of classrooms and a surface area of 2,500 m², combined with an underground sports hall of 895 m² and a playground located aboveground. The building is characterised by its façade consisting of insulated cavity walls with a regular joint pattern, combined with window openings which appear to be positioned randomly. In total, no less than 4,220 m² of cavity walls was installed. The finish inside the building was consciously kept plain using, among others, cavity walls as fair-faced concrete, 1,500 m² of painted masonry in fast-build blocks and 2,250 m² of polished concrete floor space in the classrooms and hallways.
 

Willemen Construct

Boerenkrijgstraat 133
2800 Mechelen, Antwerpen (Belgium)
tel +32 15 56 99 65
bouw@willemen.be
www.willemen.be

Willemen Construct came into being on 1 July 2018 as a result of the merger between Willemen General Contractor and the construction department of Kumpen.