Gare Maritime Workspace
GARE MARITIME WORKSPACE
Neutelings Riedijk Architects + Bureau Bouwtechniek
ARCHITECTS
Bureau Bouwtechniek, Neutelings Riedijk Architects
CATEGORY
Office Buildings, Retail
AREA
45000 m²
PHOTOGRAPHS
Filip Dujardin © Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Sarah Blee © Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Tim Fisher © Neutelings Riedijk Architects
MANUFACTURERS
Hasslacher Norica Timber, Jansen
ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
Bureau Bouwtechniek
INTERIOR DESIGN
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Omgeving
ARTIST
Henri Jacobs
DESIGN TEAM
Michiel Riedijk, Willem Jan Neutelings, Dieter de Vos, Kenny Tang, Alejandro Mosquera Garcia, Alexey Boev, Anselmo Nižić, Frank Venhorst, Pietro Manara
CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING RENOVATION
Ney & Partners, Ney & Partners
CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING NEW PAVILLIONS
Ney & Partners WOW
MEP, BUILDING PHYSICS
Boydens Engineering, Boydens Engineering
RESTORATION ARCHITECT
Jan de Moffarts with Bureau Bouwtechniek
YEAR
2020
COST CONSULTANT
Bureau Bouwtechniek
FIRE SAFETY
FPC Risk
MAIN CONTRACTOR
MBG
LOCATION
Bruxelles, Belgium
INSTALLATIONS CONTRACTOR
Cegelec, VMA, NTSA, Van Hoey, IFTech
ACOUSTICS
Venac
WOOD CONTRACTOR
Züblin
PROJECT COORDINATION
Safety Manager, Breeam Assessor:Bopro
Gare Maritime, once Europe’s largest railway station for goods on the Tour & Taxis site in Brussels, has been transformed into a covered city with a mixed program of working and shopping and plenty of public space to relax.
Under impressive steel roofs, Neutelings Riedijk Architects designed the new Gare Maritime as a City District; ‘a city where it never rains’.
Public gardens and squares.
The building dates from the beginning of the 20th century.
Under the roofs of the side aisles, twelve wooden pavilions have been added to accommodate the new program.
They create a new structure of boulevards and streets, parks, and squares that follow the urban context and the building structure in a natural way.
The central space in the heart of the building has been kept open for public events.
On both sides of the event space, the green walking boulevards are wide enough to plant ten large gardens.
Largest CLT-project in Europe.
The new pavilions have been constructed in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), with an enormous reduction in the amount of cement as a result.
The choice for wood also had a favorable effect on the construction process: thanks to prefabrication and the dry constructing method, the construction time was considerably shorter.
State-of-the-art in sustainability.
Gare Maritime is entirely energy-neutral and fossil-free.
The glass facades on Picardstreet are provided with solar cells and 17,000 m2 of solar panels have been installed on the roofs.
At all levels, far-reaching sustainability measures have been implemented, such as geothermal energy and reuse of rainwater.
This project was commissioned by Extensa and realized in cooperation with Bureau Bouwtechniek, Ney & Partners, Boydens engineering, and OMGEVING.
In the first phase, the existing historic building was carefully restored by Jan de Moffarts Architects, Bureau Bouwtechniek, Ney & Partners, and Boydens.
