Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul

Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers

Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul

V+

ARCHITECTS
Office Bouwtechniek, V+

ACOUSTICS
Daidalos Peutz

ENGINEER
François Laurent, Greisch

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Bihain, Decuypere, Hagiwara

EXECUTION ARCHITECTURE
Office Bouwtechniek, Francesca Crosby

COLLABORATORS
Elodie Degavre, Philippe Buraud.

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Bemat / Jansen

PHOTOGRAPHS
Maxime Delvaux @ 354 Photographers, Jean Luc Deru

BUDGET
4.500.000 eu (taxes exluded)

AREA
5000 m²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Montigny-le-tilleul, Belgium

CATEGORY
Town & City Hall

Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers

Text description provided by architect.

The extension is built next to the old Town Hall on a lot with a generous view on the scenic Sambre valley. The ambitions were to amplify the public usage of the site and to preserve the ring of linden trees at its limits.

Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers

Rather than to simply lay on the land, the building hovers thanks to an impressive cantilever structure – only the cafeteria is in contact with the ground and can therefore be used for events taking place in the park.

A slight slope guides the public to the reception from where the different services are easily found, being strategically located in each of the three branches of the plan.

Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers

This project shows the capacity of contemporary architecture to simply and gently be part of a rural and heritage context through its horizontality, the sobriety and abstraction of its façades and the readability of its plan.

At a greater scale, the project has seized the opportunity to redefine the bordering parking and streets while giving the citizens a new park.

Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers


Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Jean Luc Deru
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Jean Luc Deru
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Maxime Delvaux @ 354 photographers
Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
© Jean Luc Deru


Town Hall in Montigny-le-Tilleul
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