In Herentals, the last wish of Maria Verstappen, widow of solicitor Hubert Le Paige, is gradually taking shape. She left all her possessions to the church council to be used to build a new religious building. More than forty years after her death, a church will finally be built along the Kleine Nete. A building without barriers and with a promising future. Ted’A Arquitectes and Gafpa designed a shelter that invites tranquillity thanks to a sophisticated and subtle interplay of form, materials and sensory perception.

What should a new church be?