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MAKER Architecten is a Ghent-based architecture practice focused on circular design, adaptive reuse, and urban regeneration in Belgium. With Ana Castillo and Lieven De Groote as lead architects, the studio favours salvaged materials and existing structures over demolition. Its work includes YIMBY, a social housing infill within a 1920s garden-city block in Kortrijk built with reclaimed bricks and roof tiles, which received a Special Prize at the Brick Award 26, and the WVDM Living Lab, a renovation of Willy Van Der Meeren’s prefabricated student residences on the VUB campus in Brussels.
YIMBY (Yes In My BackYard) reworks a deteriorated 1920s garden-city block in Kortrijk through selective renovation, residential infill, and material reuse. By turning former rear gardens into a shared inner…
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