Care Residence VZW Ter Luchte

The master plan for the Ter Luchte care site in Ruddervoorde, designed by TM Areal + Urbain icw aAD landschapsarchitecten, redefines care architecture as a village narrative. A nursing home with 123 rooms and a local service centre replaces the outdated infrastructure. Instead of a closed campus, the project unfolds as a fine-grained ensemble of residential volumes arranged around a new green avenue, a village square, and a sheltered park garden. The architecture translates the scale of the village into a series of domestic living clusters, each organised around patios and loggias, where light, views, and encounters intertwine. Care thus becomes invisible — integrated into everyday life rather than separated from it. Through its tactile materiality, phased construction, and flexible structural framework, the project creates a future-proof building that can adapt to evolving care models. Ter Luchte demonstrates that care architecture need not be institutional: it is living with care, embedded in community and landscape — an architecture of closeness and precision.