Stéphane Beel designed a museum in which Roger Raveel's art feels at home. It is a building that integrates into the village in an alienating way. Yet it doesn't repel the village. On the contrary, it found its place there and emphasizes its reality.

Inconspicuously striking, open and closed, clear and inscrutable, it absorbs the plots as if in a legible labyrinth of spaces. It looks at the environment, admits it and withdraws into itself. Connoisseurs call it one of the most captivating and poetic works of this architect.

In Ons Erfdeel (vol. 44, 2001) architecture critic Olaf Winkler describes the integration of the museum in Machelen-aan-de-Leie as follows:

"In such a place, a museum can turn everything upside down, if it wants to take things to itself. The fact that this did not happen is thanks to Stéphane Beel. This architect has made a building for Roger Raveel's art that desires nothing: it just wants to be there like the rest of the village. "