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north facede view on 2 extensions
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north facede view on big venue
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exterior view on big venue
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interior view "turbinehall"
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interior view: foyer
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exterior view: small venue
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groundfloor plan
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first floor plan
C-Mine Cultural Infrastructure
51N4E. Genk, Belgium
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Name of work in English
C-Mine Cultural Infrastructure
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Name of work in original language
C-Mine Cultural Infrastructure
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Genk, Belgium
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Studio
51N4E
EUmies Awards 2011 Shortlisted
C-Mine is a contemporary answer on how to deal with large-scale industrial heritage.
Collaborators
Project architect: Aglaia De Mulder; Collaborator (office): Kelly Hendriks, Chris Blackbee, Joost K, Lu Zhang, Tine Cooreman, Aline Neirynck, Tom Baelus, Sotiria Kornaropoulou, Bob De Wispelaere, Jan Das, Philippe Nathan; Others: Bureau Monumentenzorg, ARAT / Philip Baelus; Structural engineering: BAS / Dirk Jaspaert; Others: TTAS, IRS; Acoustical: Daidalos-Peutz
Program
Culture
Completion
2010
The site is located within the 'carbon belt', a coalmine strip stretching as far as the Ruhr area. When mining stopped in the 1980s, the former machinery buildings were left as empty shells until they were reprogrammed into this project for cultural infrastructure. The original T-shaped building, with its dark five-metre-high base, is extended to its maximum footprint, resulting in a deep and fascinating labyrinth-like ground level.
On the first level this extension offers a new piano nobile, punctuated by the two new venues. Five steel tunnels filter the CMine visitors from the main square into the foyer, which is the main distributing space located in the base.
The Turbine Hall and the machine rooms give directly onto the new piano nobile terraces, a continuous open-air field of red and white tiling based on the original flooring, linking old and new in a natural and generous manner.