1896
8.130 m²
The City of Tielt is centralising the Stedelijke Academie voor Woord en Muziek (SAMW) and the Stedelijke Kunstacademy Tielt (SKAT) together on the Tiltex site.
The academy sees its new buildings opened towards the public space. An open meeting area in front of and inside the academy provides a spontaneous route to the diverse functions: the public spaces such as the concert hall, theatre hall, jazz studio, exhibition rooms, foyer and entrance hall, the set of classrooms for word and music, the studios for the art academy and the administrative hub for support.
The academy wishes to endorse its social role, but, on the other hand, it also wishes to distance itself and be a place safeguarded from that same society. The site will therefore be conceived as a claustra (private but transparent), a workshop where the individual expresses themselves, a forum where the individual confronts society and as an open, attractive place.