Hotel 'S Hertogenmolens Aarschot, Belgium
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‘s hertogenmolens Aarschot NOA Architecten It was a mill for corn and oil. Now it’s transformed into an hotel, a bistro and a banquet. The whole building is a protected monument and a protected city view.
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Hotel 'S Hertogenmolens Aarschot, Belgium
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‘s hertogenmolens AarschotNOA Architecten
It was a mill for corn and oil.Now it’s transformed into an hotel, a bistro and a banquet. The whole building is a protected monument and a protected city view.
History
1505-1507: 3 functions 1. The 4 mills, 2. A gateway where the ships needed to pay toll 3. protection,thefloodgatescouldbeopened
1890 : expanded the building with stack – and workhouses. It became a complex with stepped gables and pointed gables and saddle roofs.
1970:Firstafiredestroyedthenorthsideofthebuilding.Andnotmuch later, Because of the decay, the south-west facade collapsed.
Renovation
Bistro Hotel
Banquet
2007-2010: the city of Aarschot wanted to renovate the site and wanted to upgrade it to a visitors sight. They gave the assignment to noA architects from brussels. The project creates acces to the north part of the city and because of the renovation there would be a horizontal water Wheel for green energy.
Concept
a building AND a bridge a house AND a factory
powerfull AND fragile
The architects wanted just one whole volume.They remade the lost parts of the building without remarkable contrasting forms. The north and west facades must be in one volume with the old building.They adjust the building for his new functions.
With the materials they wanted the building to have the look of what itwasbeforethefire,theyusedmodernmaterialswiththesameview.
The hotel on the north side was in situ concrete with the same look of the sandstone The corten steel on the west facade is a reference to the facade before the renovation. How the ruïne looked like.
Inside the building
Opinion
Not everyone in the city liked the new modern materials. The citizens where thinking out loud that they really would have liked to just rebuild the mills as they were. But then there was a discussion aboutmakingaprojectinthecityormakingabuildingwhichwouldfitin “bokrijk” an outside museum with old houses rebuilded like they were. the mayor liked the approach of the architects very much because it’s well suited in the modern look he likes to give Aarschot.
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