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The new tourist office of Ghent is situated in the renovated fish market alongside the city canals. Projections of the latest cultural events on the glass walls, their reflections in the water are meant to catch the tourist’s gaze outside.

OFFICIAL OPENING PLANNED ON MARCH 2nd!!

For the first edition of the Ghent Light Festival, SAQ was invited to propose an installation on a site to be chosen in the city centre. The preferred location turned out to be the ancient amphitheatre in the “Aula Academia”, heart of the Ghent University.

Through projected and animated light, this light and sound installation called “BBASS” seeks to convey an entirely different reading of the space. During the three nights of the Ghent Light festival, BBASS turned out to be a public favorite and was visited by more than 80.000 people.

In collaboration with Florian Licht

In the Summer 2008 SAQ was approached by Design Hotels to aid in the creation of a proposal for an 80,000 sm site comprised of 4 existing buildings and the addition of a 5th unifying building that could run throughout the complex composed of retail, hotel, cinema and office space.

By an important multifunctional program, the reactivation of existing buildings, plazas and a composition of newly built volumes, the SAQ proposal is a total concept that has the ambition to anchor the complex back in the surrounding urban tissue.

'BotoxCloud’s' design and physical orientation has a futuristic touch, which explores the idea of pluralistic or probabilistic architecture. In other words, the installation yields various possible structural manifestations. For example, when the light comes through the paper models, its physicality changes.