Lock Keeper’s House, BE-Rijkevorsel
Near the bridge leading to the village of Rijkevorsel, a few kilometers east of Antwerp, a new “centraal bedieningsgebouw” — a lock keeper’s building — is to be built on the Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten Canal.
The building is intended to stand out as a striking, powerful form — a “landmark.” Its shape contrasts with the typically flat landscape of the Flanders region.
Nevertheless, its design language and materials blend in with the surrounding context, featuring the typical houses with gabled roofs and clinker brick facades.
Together with the existing bridge, it forms the entrance to Rijkevorsel.
