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City Hall Leuven

2019-...
Architecture, Cultural, Heritage, Public

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City Hall Leuven

FELT together with aNNo architecten won the invited competition for the renovation, restoration and reprogramming of the renown Gothic City Hall of Leuven. The winning design was praised for its mindful dealing with the historical context, the unambiguity of the new architectural gesture and the all encompassing approach towards the broader challenge of reprogramming heritage.

City Hall Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: City of Leuven
Surface: 7830 sqm
Status: Final design

In collaboration with aNNo architecten, 88888, Atelier Arne Deruyter

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Judith de Pau, Lucas van Remoortel, Michiel Hutsebaut, Sarai Olabarrieta, Léa Guillotin, Emma Margo
Consultants: BAS, Ingenium, Scala, Endeavour

Images: MakeMe, FELT

Elementary School, Zarren

2014 - 2018
Architecture, Education, Public

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Elementary School, Zarren

FELT won the Open Oproep competition for a new primary school in Zarren. The new building aims at blending in with its surroundings and is designed in tune with the adjacent nursery school. A compact two-story volume is positioned in a way it maximizes the open space. Thus creating a big playground that can extend in a public square, linking with the town’s center.
The building itself is characterized by its rational and economic structure consisting of two wings connected by a central hall. This renders a clear and straightforward circulation scheme. The west wing is directed towards the landscape and contains nine classrooms. The other wing houses the more public functions and is directed towards the playground and the town.

Elementary School, Zarren

Location: BE, Zarren
Client: Municipality of Kortemark
Surface: 2000 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens, Valerie Maes, Elise Candry, Jan Haerens
Consultants: BAS, HP engineers, Erik Geens, Studio Basta
Graphic design & signage: Janine Kopatz
Images: FELT, Stijn Bollaert

Finish Tower, Ghent

2022-
Architecture, Public, Sports & Recreation

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Finish Tower, Ghent

FELT won the invited competition for the building of a new jury-tower overlooking the Watersportbaan in Ghent.

Finish Tower, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: City of Ghent
Surface: 355 sqm
Status: Tender

FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Ewout De Bleser, Lucas van Remoortel, Marie Lafosse, Sarai Olabarrieta
Technical Consultants: HII0 Architecten en Ingenieurs bvba, DECLERCK & PARTNERS bvba
Images: FELT

Art Center, Asse

2020-
Architecture, Cultural, Education, Public

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Art Center, Asse

FELT together with OSK-AR architecten won the competition for the new arts center in Asse.

Art Center, Asse

Location: BE, Asse
Client: City of Asse
Surface: 4773 sqm
Status: Tender

In collaboration with OSK-AR architecten

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Lucas van Remoortel, Sarai Olabarrieta, Ewout De Bleser
Consultants: Fraye & Parners, AA&O, Bureau De Fonseca, 2B-SAFE
Images: MakeMe, FELT

Community Center Peterbos, Brussels

2020-
Architecture, Urbanism, Public, Sports & Recreation

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Community Center Peterbos, Brussels

FELT in collaboration with 2001 and atelier Horizon, won the invited competition for a new sport and recreation facility in Peterbos, a large-scale modernist social housing development in Brussels.
Using the height difference to our advantage we conceived the new building as a big circular plaza amidst the rigid blocks surrounding the site. The large volume of the sports hall is therefor recessed underground giving way to the plaza whilst still enabling the other functions to relate with the public realm on the lower street level. The facade is designed as a sequence of large windows opening up the inner workings towards the neighbourhood. This prolonged gallery concludes in a striking corner volume, containing the café and the large elevator and staircase that connects the plaza with the street and the sports infrastructure within.

Community Center Peterbos, Brussels

Location: BE, Peterbos
Client: Municipality of Anderlecht
Surface: 4245 sqm
Status: Building Permit

In collaboration with 2001, atelier horizon

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Elisabeth Van Kerckhove, Sarai Olabarrieta, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: UTIL, Boydens, Daidalos, Bureau Bouwtechniek
Images: FELT

Design Museum Ghent

2019, invited competition
Architecture, Cultural, Public

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Design Museum Ghent

FELT teamed up with Monadnock (Nl) and aNNo architecten to take on the challenge to design a new wing for the Design Museum in the historical city center of Ghent. The proposed idiosyncratic volume received praise for its landmark ambitions and the ingenuity it showed in handling the program.

Design Museum Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: City of Ghent
Status: Competition

In collaboration with aNNo architecten, Monadnock

FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Consultants: Eric Geens, Boydens, UTIL
Images: FELT, Monadnock, Ponnie

Elementary School, Ghent

2018-
Architecture, Education, Public

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Elementary School, Ghent

FELT & ROBUUST won the competition for a new kindergarten, sports hall and school extension in Ghent.

Elementary School, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Stad Gent
Surface: 2330 sqm
Status: Tender

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Judith De Pau, Michiel Hutsebaut, Elisabeth Van Kerckhove, Marie Lafosse, Lucas Van Remoortel
Consultants: ROBUUST, Erik Geens
Images: FELT

Bekaert site, Hemiksem

2022
Architecture, Urbanism, Public

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Bekaert site, Hemiksem

FELT together with hub and NU architectuuratelier were invited for the competition for a housing project in Hemiksem.

Bekaert site, Hemiksem

Location: BE, Hemiksem
Client: Park aan de Stroom II
Surface: 60 000 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with hub, NU architectuuratelier

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: OVERLANT landschapsarchitecten
Images: FELT, hub, NU architectuuratelier

Rose garden, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

2021
Architecture, Urbanism, Public, Cultural

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Rose garden, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

FELT together with Maat ontwerpers were invited for the competition for the new masterplan for a public rose garden in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw.

Rose garden, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw

Location: BE, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
Client: Agentschap natuur en bos
Surface: 138971 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with: Maat ontwerpers

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Ewout De Bleser, Sarai Olabarrieta
Consultant: Erik Dhont Landscape Architects
Images: FELT

Neptunus, Ghent

2019
Architecture, Urbanism, Public, Sports & Recreation

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Neptunus, Ghent

FELT collaborated with MAAT Ontwerpers on a masterplan for the Neptunus-site near Ghent. The planned demolishment of the current open air swimming pool was a starting point to research the possibilities of the area. As a result of an intense co-creation process with multiple stakeholders, the new masterplan not only defines the new position of the swimming pool, but also leads to a more open site with strong green character and a rational and safe circulation plan.

Neptunus, Ghent

Location: BE, Wondelgem
Client: City of Ghent
Surface: 96 000 sqm
Status: Study

In collaboration with MAAT Ontwerpers

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Lucas Van Remoortel
Images: FELT

Entrance Pavilion, Gaasbeek

2016
Architecture, Cultural, Public

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Entrance Pavilion, Gaasbeek

For the new entrance pavilion for the estate of Gaasbeek we designed a small tower. It acts as a first architectural encounter in the sequence of ‘folies’ scattered throughout the parks and gardens surrounding the Castle. Standing along the road, it allows for easy recognition as a starting point for a visit to the domain.
The layout of the quirky building is highly rational: on ground level a large public hall is embedded in the greenery, stacked on top are the auxiliary functions. Its sober brick facade features large arched openings, providing impressive views on the surrounding landscape. The top floor is conceived as a public roof terrace, where visitors can scan the area - much like watchmen at the gate.

Entrance Pavilion, Gaasbeek

Location: BE, Gaasbeek
Client: Flemish government
Surface: 500 sqm
Result: Competition

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Samuele Xompero
Consultants: UTIL, HP engineers, Atelier Arne Deruyter, Daidalos
Images: Eva Le Roi & FELT

Beach Pavilion, Nieuwpoort

2018
Architecture, Cultural, Hospitality, Urbanism, Public

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Beach Pavilion, Nieuwpoort

Together with White Arkitekter (SE) FELT finished first in the WinVorm competition for the new beach pavilion in Nieuwpoort (BE). The proposal was praised for its capacity to invigorating the public realm and the subtlety demonstrated by tuning in with the littoral landscape.

Beach Pavilion, Nieuwpoort

Location: BE, Nieuwpoort
Client: Nieuwpoort
Surface: 2030 sqm
Status: Competition

With: White Arkitekter

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Eric Geens, BAS
Images: FELT

Provinciaal Hof, Brugge

2018-
Architecture, Cultural, Hospitality, Heritage, Public

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Provinciaal Hof, Brugge

FELT won the WinVorm competition for the design of a new visitor center and event spaces within the Provinciaal Hof, a 19th century neo-gothic palace on Bruges' central market square. We proposed to rethink the ground-floor level as an extension of the public space and suggested the creation of kind of plaza in the middle of this neo-gothic decorum.
The aim was to improve the accessibility and offer more flexibility in the usage. To do so the non-authentic generic tiling is interchanged for a new terrazzo flooring, characterised by an oversized checkered pattern that extends all te way to the back, and thereby somehow settles with the original articulation of separate rooms in the creation of a larger 'forum'.

This forum is conceived as a 'plug-and-play' event space offering state of the art technical solutions integrated within the renewed floor. The raster of 2,5m*2,5m brass lines set out by the flooring pattern spans a field of nodes throughout the space. These nodes not only provide multiple network acces points, the also serve as docking points for a specific set of equipments, specifically designed for the forum to serve a diverse future programming.
This forum is adjoined by serving functions organised in the side wings. In the south wing a new elevator, subtly integrated within the original structure of the building, creates a new logistic connection. Highly improving the operations of personal and catering staff in the organisation of events within the authentic interiors on the higher floors. In the north wing a new stairway connects the forum with the new lavatories and cloakroom.

Provinciaal Hof, Brugge

Location: BE, Brugge
Client: Provincie West-Vlaanderen
Surface: 3800 sqm
Status: Execution

In collaboration with Architect Van Severen

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: aNNo architecten, Boydens engineering
Images: FELT

Central Gate, Brussels

2019-2021
Design, Public, Objects

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Central Gate, Brussels

FELT was invited by Maniera, along with several other architects and designers, to design the interior of the coworking space inside the Central Gate building in Brussels, designed mid-thirties by Alexis Dumont.

Central Gate, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Maniera
Status: Built

General layout by doorzon interieurarchitecten

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: Jerroen Verrecht & FELT

(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

2021-2022
Design, Scenography, Public

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(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

FELT designed the scenography for (un)common values, an exhibition curated by both the National Bank of Belgium and the Banco de España.

(un)common values, Nationale Bank van België, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: National Bank of Belgium
Surface: 12950 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut, Sarai Olabarrieta
Consultant: Chris Pype (Light)
Contractor: Aorta+
Images: Jeroen Verrecht, FELT

Imagining the Universe, M Leuven

2020-2021
Design, Scenography, Public

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Imagining the Universe, M Leuven

FELT designed the scenography for the exhibition 'Imagining the Universe' in M Leuven.

Imagining the Universe, M Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: M Leuven
Surface: 1020 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Consultants: Chris Pype
Images: Dirk Pauwels

Delen Pavilion, Biennale Kortrijk

2018
Design, Scenography, Public

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Delen Pavilion, Biennale Kortrijk

FELT designed a temporary exhibition pavilion for Private Bank Delen at Interieur Kortrijk.

A sequence of ten identical square rooms shows the work of modernist architect Léon Stynen through drawings, models and photographs.
Colorful metal furniture pieces are designed specifically for the pavilion and spread throughout the exhibition.

Delen Pavilion, Biennale Kortrijk

Location: BE, Kortrijk
Client: Private Bank Delen
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Graphic design: Gestalte
Images: Bart Kiggen, Gestalte, FELT

Object Stories, Design Museum Gent

2017
Design, Scenography, Public

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Object Stories, Design Museum Gent

Together with doorzon we had the chance to develop a new concept for the presentation of the permanent collection of the Design museum in Ghent. The premise: A permanent collection shouldn’t necessary result in a permanent exhibition. This partially 'curatorial' challenge, in opening up a +20.000 pieces strong collection towards the broad public, induced a design proposal that aims at incorporating ‘room for doubt’.
By closing off the inner core of the building from the space around it we consolidate the spatial duality that was already inherent in the plan. The perambulation around our newly created center we use to showcase a selection of masterpieces. The core itself provides a place for experiment: A permanent resource for temporary interventions continuously revisiting the collection in its full range and depth.

Object Stories, Design Museum Gent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Design museum Gent
Surface: 1000 sqm
Status: Built

In collaboration with doorzon interieurarchitecten

FELT Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: doorzon interieurarchitecten, FELT, Michiel De Cleene

Bookshop, M Leuven, Leuven

2016 - 2017
Design, Interior, Public, Objects

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Bookshop, M Leuven, Leuven

The museum lobby is conceived as a ‘hub': a space that helps the public to orientate towards the galleries, the ticket desk or the cafeteria. The existing architecture provides no more than what the intended function asks for, merely the space itself. Ad hoc additions (multimedia desk, promotion, shop, kids-corner…) transformed it into a place of clutter.
The challenge was to incorporate those necessary additions without neglecting the purity of the space. The design consists of a single intervention, the introduction of three mirroring cubes. When spread out in the space they reflect their surroundings, adding new perspectives. Bright primal colors in their interior mark their distinct functions and add fragments of color to the sober interior of the lobby.

Bookshop, M Leuven, Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: M Leuven
Surface: 1000 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Samuele Xompero, Bram Denkens
Consultants: BAS, Nick Top
Images: Frederik Vercruysse, FELT

Behind The Curtain, Biennale Kortrijk

2014
Design, Interior, Public

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Behind The Curtain, Biennale Kortrijk

The idea for this Award-winning project for the 2014 Interior Biennale in Kortrijk derives from the consideration that space is a scarce good on most fairs. Booths are crammed side to side and constantly screaming for the public’s attention.
In the same way a city park can be an escape from busy traffic, Behind the Curtain offers a pause from the noise and visual overload of the fair. Arranged along the solid base of two marble bars it offers intimate seats comfortably embraced by a silky curtain. Therefore, aside from the food and drinks it provides, this bar’s biggest asset might be the hiding space it generates.

Behind The Curtain, Biennale Kortrijk

Location: BE, Kortrijk
Client: Biennale Interieur
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Images: Bart Kiggen, Filip Dujardin, FELT

Beyond Klimt, BOZAR, Brussels

2018
Design, Scenography, Public

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Beyond Klimt, BOZAR, Brussels

'Beyond Klimt' starts with paintings by Gustav Klimt and brings together works of former Austro-Hungarian artists who, after the fall of the empire at the end of WWI, each placed their artistic identity before their nationality. The scenography design accommodates a unifying atmosphere leading the visitors through different rooms and chapters. A ribbon of hand drawn pencil lines forms a continuous guideline. It's changing rhythm provides a means to alternate intensity throughout the different rooms. Similar vertical lines shape the marbled plastic benches and pedestals.

Beyond Klimt, BOZAR, Brussels

Location: BE, Brussels
Client: Bozar
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT, Philippe De Gobert

Loodsenstraat, Ghent

2017
Architecture, Residential, Public

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Loodsenstraat, Ghent

The brief for this social housing project called for 7 single 3-bedroom houses and 3 apartments. The plot is a long stretched strip in a street consisting of consecutive row houses with small north-oriented private backyards. Rather then persevering this existing typology we opted to turn things around. By creating an alternating rhythm of laterally organized houses and dual gardens we break up the continuous street facade. Bringing light into the street and giving the houses and gardens a more beneficial East-West orientation. This feature was reinforced furthermore by the gently rounded brick corners, creating the quaint figuration that is repeated in the corner building containing the apartments.

Loodsenstraat, Ghent

Location: BE, Ghent
Client: Woningent
Surface: 1200 sqm
Status: Competition

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten
Consultants: Tech 3, LIME
Images: FELT

Clubhouse, Molenbeek

2015 - 2018
Architecture, Public, sports-recreation, Education

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Clubhouse, Molenbeek

The project site is situated in a very dense neighborhood with a serious lack of public space. Our site, a courtyard inside a building block, is currently used as a parking lot. The projects goal was to create a new home base for the Chiro-youth. Concepts like flexibility, durability and multiversity were paramount. FELT therefore designed a highly compact building, saving budget in space for the thorough renovation of the courtyard. Turning it into a multi-functional square and/or playground. This way the project accommodates not only the demands of the client, it also seizes the opportunity to contribute to the public realm in this overpopulated neighborhood.

Clubhouse, Molenbeek

Location: BE, Sint-Jans Molenbeek
Client: Chiro Jijippeke
Surface: 350 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Adrian Verhoijsen, Bram Denkens
Consultant: STIR engineers
Graphic design: Janine Kopatz
Images: FELT

De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

2015 - 2016
Design, Scenography, Public

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De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

The exhibition "Thirty Years of Architecture in Flanders - The Wonder Years in architectural models" features the groundbreaking and pioneering projects from that period. It offers a comprehensive overview of the leading figures, facts and events that have contributed to the flourishing architectural culture of Flanders.

De Wonderjaren in Maquettes (VAI), Knokke

Location: BE, Knokke-Heist
Client: Vlaams Architectuur Instituut
Surface: 800 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bartolomeo Zanotti, Esmeralda Misseghers
Graphic desing: Bureau Grusenmeyer
Images: Stijn Bollaert

In Search Of Utopia, M Leuven, Leuven

2015 - 2016
Design, Scenography, Public

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In Search Of Utopia, M Leuven, Leuven

Five hundred years ago Thomas More wrote his infamous masterpiece "Utopia". The importance and influence of his book throughout the last five centuries has been astounding. On the occasion of this anniversary Illuminare (KUL) and Museum M initiated the exhibition "In search of Utopia".
FELT’s design for the scenography was selected through an invited competition.

In Search Of Utopia, M Leuven, Leuven

Location: BE, Leuven
Client: M Leuven
Surface: 1200 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Bartolomeo Zanotti
Consultant: Chris Pype (Light)
Construction: 3CS
Images: Filip Dujardin, FELT

Scenography, KMSKA, Antwerp

2016
Design, Scenography, Public

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Scenography, KMSKA, Antwerp

FELT teamed up with doorzon interieurarchitecten in the competition for the interior design & scenography for the new KMSKA.

Scenography, KMSKA, Antwerp

Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: KMSKA
Surface: 25000 sqm
Status: Competition

In collaboration with doorzon interieurarchitecten

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Bram Denkens, Seppe Claes
Consultant: Chris Pype (Light)
Graphic & interaction design: LAVA
Images: Barbara Joseph, doorzon interieurarchitecten, FELT

Coffee counter, Turnhout

2018
Design, Interior, Public

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Coffee counter, Turnhout

FELT was selected to propose an artistic intervention for the new community center in Turnhout.

Intrigued by the slight rotations in the plan, we looked for the center point and used it to draw an arc spanning the width of the space. It resulted in an elongated aluminium piece of furniture with a lens-like shape. It might easily function as a coffee counter but at the same time it seems averse to any functionality in the way it blends in, reflecting the thoroughfare.

Coffee counter, Turnhout

Location: BE, Turnhout
Client: Zorggroep Orion
Status: Competition

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT

Jenevermuseum, Hasselt

2012 - 2014
Design, Scenography, Public

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Jenevermuseum, Hasselt

The Jenevermuseum is characterized by heavy wooden trusses and an abundance of crude brickwork. The scenography aims to introduce a new lightness within the historic site. Slender white structures are positioned between the bulky beams. The result is a juxtaposition that results in a continuous interplay between dark and light, solid and slim, old and new.

Jenevermuseum, Hasselt

Location: BE, Hasselt
Client: Madoc, Municipality of Hasselt
Surface: 1200 sqm
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Thomas Roelandts (Marge)
Consultants: Superdamned, Koen Bruyneel, Ineke Wellens, Maison Caro
Images: Bart Kiggen

The Hungry City, MAS, Antwerp

2015
Design, Scenography, Public

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The Hungry City, MAS, Antwerp

Based on Carolyn Steel's bestseller "The hungry City", MAS initiated an exhibition that entails the rich history, present and future of Antwerp perceived through food.
FELT's proposal was nominated as winner of the international call.

The Hungry City, MAS, Antwerp

Location: BE, Antwerp
Client: MAS
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Esmeralda Misseghers, Bram Denkens
Consultants: Pantopicon (curator, glass pavillion)
Graphic design: LAVA
Images: Pieter Kers, FELT

Public Library, Merelbeke

2018
Design, Objects, Public, Interior

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Public Library, Merelbeke

FELT designed new desks for a public library and with it a series of accessories: white metal mesh add-ons providing additional functionalities.

Public Library, Merelbeke

Location: BE, Merelbeke
Client: Bibliotheek Merelbeke
Status: Built

Team: Jasper Stevens, Karel Verstraeten, Michiel Hutsebaut
Images: FELT