ARTAN

août, 2024

ARTAN

Renovation of a villa in Schaerbeek

Description: Renovation of a villa 3 façades
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation
Location: Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
Year: 2023

pictures: Delphine Mathy

The ARTAN project involves the renovation and conversion of a single-family home. The interventions are designed to improve the functionality and aesthetics of the dwelling while respecting the original architectural features.

One of the key aspects of the project is the extension, including the creation of an additional bedroom upstairs and a terrace offering direct access to the garden. This creates a direct connection between the inside and the outside environment. The entrance hall has been completely redesigned to create a bright, welcoming space.

The organisation of this new space allows fluid circulation around the garage, accentuating the feeling of openness as soon as you enter the house. The overall intervention is characterised by its sobriety and discretion, highlighting the existing architecture rather than supplanting it.

On the street side, however, a bolder approach was adopted: the existing brick wall was demolished to make way for the addition, making the scale of the project visible from the street.

FLORIDE

août, 2024

FLORIDE

Renovation of a family house

Description: Renovation of a single house
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Renovation
Location: Uccle, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 380 m²
Year: 2022-2024

pictures: Delphine Mathy

The project involves a major renovation and transformation of an existing semi-detached family house in Uccle.

The original volume of the house has been mainly maintained while the entrance and the stairs were modified to maximize the entrance of light through the third façade at the back of the house.

The ground floor is now dedicated to the entrance, storage, offices and a garage; the first floor contains the living area, and the other levels are assigned to multiple bedrooms. The levels are connected by a new concrete staircase which offers nice views over the garden.

The ground floor has been enhanced and transformed. An office area has been added, and new, larger windows and openings brighten the interior. The front door has been modified to allow ground floor access. The existing living area has been transformed to create an open and illuminated living and dining room with a direct connection to the open kitchen, which is linked to a large terrace on the garden side of the house. A library has been installed in the former entrance hall, giving a view across to the garden and a degree of ‘inside/outside’ permeability thanks to the stairwell, which extends to the rear and has a large bay window over its entire height

The facade work is characterized by brickwork without visible joints.

BIP

août, 2017

BIP

Description: renovation and transformation of the reception area of the BIP building

Partner of collaboration: Jean Paul Hermant Architects
Type of project: Cultural
Type of customer: Public
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Brussels (BE)
Year: 2000

BIP is located in a highly symbolic area of Brussels. The site features a superimposition of historical layers; one of the most impressive is the underground path from the Palais du Coudenberg to the Place Royale, which crosses numerous medieval remains.

The project consists mainly of reconfiguring the BIP’s reception area.

The architectural intervention highlights the historical traces and gives the visitors the opportunity to experience a little less than a thousand years of our city’s history by directing the flow of visitors.

The new entrance gives all visitors, including groups and PRMs, access to the three different museums.

(Coudenberg, Brussels. Experience and the Cat Museum).

The new reception area involves lowering the existing floor slab by +/- 1.4 m. The idea is to provide level even access from the sidewalk of the Place Royale. Through a thermal sluice, visitors are directed to a large reception desk, which manages and organizes the various flows to the museums.

Multiples visual links are created throughout the building by creating a large atrium behind the counter.

A new opening in the slab creates visual links to the early Coudenberg excavations. The different historical layers can be read on the walls. A staircase is built through this opening, and after several stair landings, it joins the steps of the old staircase linking Rue Isabelle and the inner courtyard of the former palace. The design of this new staircase is based on a floating aesthetic thanks to a system of hangers, ensuring that the existing remains untouched.

Around the main entrance area, the existing floor levels are maintained, and various staircases and elevators ensure easy access to the various spaces and floors where, among the new circulation areas and sanitary facilities, a generous bar-cafeteria is created.