Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture _ Francesa Torzo Architetto
Limburg, Belgium, 2018
Historic urban fabric informs an abstracted museum extension
The art museum Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium forms part of a triangle of varied brick buildings enclosing a large central garden, which were built for independent religious women who did not become nuns. This arrangement is known as a beguinage, and originally served to exclude the city from the garden, which was a communal resource for the women. […]