Robbrecht en Daem architecten

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Robbrecht en Daem architecten

Founded in 1975 by Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem, the firm has completed a diverse range of projects

17/10/2025

Young people from our neighbourhood came along with TAJO to learn about the profession of architecture. In three workshops, they demonstrated their talents through play and got to work on some crucial themes from our profession. The collaborators of and Robbrecht en Daem, together with TAJO, made it an exploratory afternoon:

Workshop 1: floating house (problem-solving thinking). Imagine: Ghent is flooded and all kinds of waste materials float to the surface. Build a floating house that will pass the test and remain afloat on Robbrecht en Daem’s pond.

Workshop 2: living plan (measuring and fitting, scale). Furnish rooms in our hall on a giant 1:1 scale model of a dream house, first prepared on paper on a 1:10 scale. To measure is to know!

Workshop 3: a sense of façade (materials, textures, colour and composition). The façade of Murmuur is getting new materials. Come and shop in our materials library for your mood board and focus on texture and colour palette. Rubbing each material with wax crayons gives it a different look.

15/10/2025

Extracts from the archive, part II: drawings of the Aue Pavilions for Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, 1992.

Following the restoration and transformation of Henry van de Velde’s Boekentoren, the archive of Robbrecht en Daem is now also finding a home in this iconic building. We are systematically transferring both the paper and digital archives to the Boekentoren, where they will be preserved in optimal conditions and made accessible for scientific research, education, exhibitions and publications. This archive includes sketches, photographs, plans, tender documents, correspondence, models and ephemera from some 600 projects. The Documenta IX/Aue Pavilions was one of the first projects to be transferred.

The addition of the Robbrecht en Daem architecten’s archive not only continues the tradition of Gandavensia (items related to Ghent) playing a central role in the Boekentoren’s heritage collection, but also reflects the close collaboration with the Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Vandenhove Centre. The Boekentoren already houses archives of artists such as Raoul De Keyser, Jan Vercruysse and René Heyvaert. The Robbrecht en Daem archive adds an architectural dimension to this, which ties in with the 19th-century collections of architects such as Louis Roelandt and Louis Minard and the archive of the Boekentoren’s own construction by Van de Velde.

14/10/2025

Extracts from the archive: a letter with sketches of a room for Bruce Nauman’s work, faxed from Robbrecht en Daem to Jan Hoet in preparation of Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, 1992.

Following the restoration and transformation of Henry van de Velde’s Boekentoren, the archive of Robbrecht en Daem is now also finding a home in this iconic building. We are systematically transferring both the paper and digital archives to the Boekentoren, where they will be preserved in optimal conditions and made accessible for scientific research, education, exhibitions and publications. This archive includes sketches, photographs, plans, tender documents, correspondence, models and ephemera from some 600 projects. Documenta IX/Aue Pavilions was one of the first projects to be transferred.

The addition of the Robbrecht en Daem architecten’s archive not only continues the tradition of Gandavensia (items related to Ghent) playing a central role in the Boekentoren’s heritage collection, but also reflects the close collaboration with the Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Vandenhove Centre. The Boekentoren already houses archives of artists such as Raoul De Keyser, Jan Vercruysse and René Heyvaert. The Robbrecht en Daem archive adds an architectural dimension to this, which ties in with the 19th-century collections of architects such as Louis Roelandt and Louis Minard and the archive of the Boekentoren’s own construction by Van de Velde.

19/09/2025

The new art hall BRUSK in Bruges is almost ready to welcome its first visitors. Feel free to stop by this weekend, on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September.

The official opening of the inaugural exhibition will take place in May 2026.

In collaboration with

Photos by Joris Van Huychem

18/09/2025

Mini time-lapse of the construction of BRUSK in Bruges. The new art hall with its exhibition rooms, studios, forum and auditorium is almost finished and will open its doors on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September for a first public experience. The official opening of the inaugural exhibition will take place in May 2026.

In collaboration with

Photos by Hilde Daem and Olivier Salens

11/07/2025

The Friendly Tower in Houthulst, Belgium is open to the public as of this week!

The new observation tower on the open landscape of the IJzerbroeken is a pentagonal figure whose shape incorporates the structure of flowers and plants. The viewing platform offers views of the surrounding historical, geometric bodies of water. The tower aims to be accessible from each side, with a high gateway for adult visitors, a low one for children and three very low, symbolic openings for the smallest passers-by (a shoveler, a sedge warbler, perhaps a fox?). Through a wooden latticework skin, ascending visitors always retain a view of the landscape, while their movements are filtered to not disturb life around the tower.

Together with and .

11/06/2025

Private house in East Flanders, Belgium. Work in progress and an ode to geometry, with the vesica piscis representing the act of looking. Within the project, this space fundamentally looks towards the sky, oriented to catch the late sun and let in its stunning colours.

03/06/2025

Private house in East Flanders, Belgium. Work in progress and an ode to geometry, with several (half) vesicae piscis in dialogue with each other, in the design of the house and the landscape.

05/05/2025

Abdij van Park (Park Abbey), Heverlee. Work in progress and an ode to geometry, with two pentagonal tower volumes as circulation cores. That pentagonal shape has an enigmatic character because it has no parallel sides. Opposite a plane lies an angle, which creates an internal tension. The concrete tower was emphatically placed with a point towards the historic building, seeming almost detached from its façade. As a result of this positioning, highly valuable Romanesque façade elements - remnants of a 13th-century church - are afforded views from the staircase of the tower volume.

In collaboration with and BAS.

23/04/2025

We love how Eva Vermandel uses the Concert Hall in Bruges as the setting for her exhibition while playing with the building’s materials, light and perspectives. ‘My Apple, Your Eye’ – on view at Concertgebouw, Bruges until 4 May.

Photo by Paul Robbrecht

10/03/2025

Playful season’s greetings! Puppets for Puppet Theatre, designed and created by Paul Robbrecht for his grandchildren, 2016.

Photos by Thomas Hick (1-2) and Brecht De Roose (3-6)

07/03/2025

New reception building for the Rubenshuis in Antwerp, 2024. Now featured in A+311!

In collaboration with , , , and .

Photos by Filip Dujardin

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Lieremanstraat 64
Ghent
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http://www.robbrechtendaem.com/

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