De Kruierie

Extension and renovation of an arts campus including a theatre, workshops, music school and a library to form a single cultural community centre in Balen

Client: Gemeente Balen
Team: Studio Jan Vermeulen, Aat vos, ABT Antwerpen
Budget: € 2.2 million
Area: 3.822 m²
Design: 2021
Stage: Competition
Studio collaborators: Gianna Neumann, Ricardo Ploemen

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Extension and renovation of an arts campus including a theatre, workshops, music school and a library to form a single cultural community centre in Balen

Client: Gemeente Balen
Team: Studio Jan Vermeulen, Aat vos, ABT Antwerpen
Budget: € 2.2 million
Area: 3.822 m²
Design: 2021
Stage: Competition
Studio collaborators: Gianna Neumann, Ricardo Ploemen

We see the challenges of our time as a breeding ground for an inclusive, feasible, economic, and sustainable architecture. Our architecture does not grow in a far utopic future but is conceived in today’s society so we can live better in the society of tomorrow.

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We have developed an approach based on precision, craftsmanship and eye for detail. Our projects are layered and kaleidoscopic. We look for meanings hidden in the spatial form, but also in the making of this form. We are looking for an architecture that serves and loves people. We commit to a diplomatic approach that generates architecture that feels familiar but nevertheless unlocks new spatial conditions, sometimes modest, sometimes bold.

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Selected Projects | PROJECTS LIST

Name	Status
Militza care home	2024 - ongoing
Conversion of warehouse	2024 - ongoing
Well house	2023 - 2024
Muide Refuge and shelter	2022 - ongoing
Headquarters DDS+Verko	2022 - ongoing
Kaaidistrict urban development	2022 - ongoing
Kaai office building	2022 - ongoing
Mama house	2022 - ongoing
Grote Steenweg housing and nursery	2022
De Ceder care home	2021
De Kruierie community centre	2021
Zonneheem community centre	2021
Jain house	2021
Rozemaai housing	2020 - ongoing
Workshop extension	2020 - 2021
Klaverwijk urban development	2020
Gust house	2020
Keerdok housing	2019 - ongoing
Laar housing	2019 - ongoing
Folly	2019
Josaphat urban development	2018
Keizerspark community centre	2018
De Sterrekijker school campus	2018
Heilig Hart community centre	2018
Campus masterplan	2018
De Leunen housing	2017 - ongoing
Felix housing	2017 - 2024
Frank house	2017 - 2019
Kaleidoscoop	2017
Waterhoenlaan housing	2017
Herbestemming Kerken	2016 -2020
Soho housing	2016 - 2022
The Good Life housing	2016 - 2020
Populierenhof care home	2016
Patersite urban development	2016
Vaartdijk school campus	2016
Visitor centre Prinsenpark	2015 - 2021
Quinten housing	2015
Janseniushof housing	2015
University campus Diepenbeek	2015
Zennester club house	2015
Bommels housing	2015
Steenweg housing	2015
Cadix housing	2015
Vijverpark masterplan	2014 - 2015
Vuurkruisen school campus	2014
House Kraa	2014
De Korenbloem Care home	2013 - 2020
De Brug student facilities	2013

PROJECTS LIST | Selected Projects

De Kruierie

Extension and renovation of an arts campus including a theatre, workshops, music school and a library to form a single cultural community centre in Balen

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©Studio Jan Vermeulen 2025

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De Kruierie

Extension and renovation of an arts campus including a theatre, workshops, music school and a library to form a single cultural community centre in Balen

We see the challenges of our time as a breeding ground for an inclusive, feasible, economic, and sustainable architecture. Our architecture does not grow in a far utopic future but is conceived in today’s society so we can live better in the society of tomorrow.

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We see the challenges of our time as a breeding ground for an inclusive, feasible, economic, and sustainable architecture. Our architecture does not grow in a far utopic future but is conceived in today’s society so we can live better in the society of tomorrow.

Journal

Projects

Studio

Selected Projects | PROJECTS LIST

PROJECTS LIST | Selected Projects

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