B612 Associates

Flandre - Housing

Flandre - Housing

FLANDRE - HOUSING

B612 Associates

ARCHITECTS
B612 Associates

PHOTOS
Marie-Françoise Plissart (19), B612 Associates (9)

STATUS
Built

SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET
$1M - 5M

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Brussels, Belgium

TYPE
Commercial › Retail Residential › Apartment Multi Unit Housing

The project is located in the district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels.

Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing

It is part of the urban renewal strategy of the city and holds a strategic position, facing the town hall, at the corner of two axis, one of them has been dedicated to enhance soft mobility.

The project responds to this context and proposes a real urban articulation opening the view towards the town hall.

The facade of the building is slightly folded to broaden the perspective from the Brunfaut street, and connect the public space to the main axis without generating a "backside".

Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing

A new facade is so designed facing the prospect of the town hall.

The existing road widening is thus transformed into a real space in continuity with the town square, stretching it between two landmark buildings.

Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing

A careful attention is given to to integration of the project into its context.

The building proposed is compact, attractive, yet sober.

Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing

The design of the ground floor is a search to amplify the continuities within the public space, while for the upper floors, the specificities of the program have motivated large openings cut into the main volume.

They respond to the scale of the apartments, offering outdoor spaces and structuring the organization of the rooms and spaces for each of them.

Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing

At the urban scale, they give the project its expressiveness.

The building is dressed with a skin made of a folded and perforated sheet of metal, interrupted only to reveal the large and bright yellow openings cut for the terraces.

Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing

The sheet is folded following a variable rhythm, the perforations are random.

A dynamic effect, a vibration of the facade is so realized in order to accompany the urban articulation and underline the role of the project as urban signal.

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Flandre - Housing
Flandre - Housing


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Flandre - Housing


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Flandre - Housing

B612 Associates
T +32 2 7329693
B612 Associates
Chau. de Waterloo 1253, 1180 Bruxelles, Belgium