A matter of: Fact & Figure is a graduation project which has been developed within the Interiors Buildings Cities Studio. In short, this project tries to ask how contexts and compositions of facts – in this case specifically, artefacts – could be left behind in order for them to be interpreted as meaningful figures.
The project revolves around artefacts in particular, since its subject is The Flemish Architecture Institute in Antwerp, Belgium. This institute manages architectural artefacts within their archive in the centre of Antwerp, which the sensitize to the public within their institute in DE SINGEL, an International Arts Centre which is located along the fringe of Antwerp’s centre.
In 2021, an intention to bring the institute and its archive together under one roof was expressed through a competition for a new building for the institute. Such a project, however, has never been realized. This graduation project attempts to revive this intention and proposes a new architecture institute in Antwerp.
Before presenting the proposal, an understanding of knowledge will be will be provided, which formed as a basis from which problems regarding the institute could be defined. These problems and a failed attempt to solve them are then explained, after which an alternative design proposal will be presented.