Lieve Heyvaert is a former student of the University of Antwerp and spent many hours at the university parish between 1975 and 1978. Thanks to her, we know how the letters of Zomaar een dak came to be placed on the façade at Prinsstraat 32.
How our façade became Zomaar een dak
"The close-knot team working in Prinsstraat at the time consisted of a bunch of naïve idealists who still carried a bit of the spirit of the 1960s within them. More specifically, this included Karel Van Thillo (UFSIA), Min van Hoof (RUCA) and Marcel Van Lommel (UIA).
They had been looking for some time for a suitable name for the building that housed Open Veld, the upper hall of the pastoral service - at that time, the ground floor was still a garage - when they were inspired by Zomaar een dak boven wat hoofden, a hymn by Huub Oosterhuis.
In hindsight, that source of inspiration was only natural, because on Saturday evenings we invariably sang that song at the top of our voices, and later it could often be heard while we were doing the washing-up in the Open veld kitchen. And so one thing led to another: our house would be called Zomaar een dak."
Not just architectural heritage
Read all about it on the website of the Inventory of Immovable Heritage.
Residential group
On the second and third floors of Zomaar een dak, up to 2022-2023, you would find a diverse group of six students, better known as the woongroep (translates as residential group).