Architect: Lou Jasen, Hideyuki Nakayama
Belgium: Antwerp
Year: 2018
The Frans Masereel Centrum is a graphic arts centre that specialises in printmaking and visual arts, located in rural Flanders, Kempen (Antwerp). The centre offers residencies and working spaces to national and international graphic designers, artists and critics who want to work with intaglio, relief printing, screen print or lithography. The centre, founded in 1972, was designed by the Belgian architect Lou Jansen.
In 2013, an international invited architecture competition was organised for the design of a new pavilion hosting printmaking studios, an archive room, a workshop and a new public exhibition space. LIST (Paris) and Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture (Tokyo) were awarded first prize. The new 420 m² pavilion completed in 2018, is an extension to the existing dome designed by Lou Jansen. The building stretches the existing centre towards the open landscape to the south and works together with the existing dome. Text by athor
