AMBROISE

juin, 2022

AMBROISE

Co living Ambroise

Description: Transformation and renovation of an appartement building into a Co living house.
Type of project: Housing – Co living
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Uccle, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: m²
Year: 2020-2022
Contractor: MP Instal sprl
Stability engineers: Verhelst engineers
Siteweb: maisonambroise.be

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

The AMBROISE project starts with a meeting between two buildings within the same plot: a Brussels house, with a very elaborate facade on the street frontage, and a warehouse with an industrial character inside the block.

Driven by a project that could keep this link, the owners engaged in a programmatic and spatial reflection aiming at creating links between the occupants, and allowing to increase their quality of life in the city.

By re-imagining and transforming the spaces of the front house within its existing boundaries, it was possible to create a 6-bedroom co-living space. The community has an important place in the project but the process starts with the quality of the private space, for which nothing has been neglected. Therefore, special attention is given to acoustics, materials and design. All the rooms have a generous surface, are accompanied by a shower room, a private toilet, an office corner and vintage furniture.

The top floor under the roof is a common space connected to a large terrace.

The choice of clay plaster for the interior walls, from BC Materials, offers a warm and sustainable character, providing an intimate and natural cocoon in the mineral context of the city.

The project echoes an eco-responsible approach.

SCARABAEUS II

mai, 2022

SCARABAEUS II

A new cultural center for Schaerbeek

Description: transformation of the Elite cinema and Scarabaeus theatre into a new socio-cultural facility in collaboration with l’Escaut
Type of project: Cultural
Type of customer: Public
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
Year: 2019-2020
Project Manager: Olivier Goffin

In the historic heart of Schaerbeek,the project consists of the transformation of the former Elite cinema and Scarabaeus theatre into a new socio-cultural facility accessible to all and open to its neighbourhood. The project involves the renovation, reconstruction and extension of an old cinema, a theatre and a tenement building with a view to creating a new facility with stage areas, adaptable spaces for various cultural and social activities, as well as technical and administrative areas.

EIKESTRAAT

mars, 2022

EIKESTRAAT

New construction of a villa

Description: Villa
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: New construction
Location: Tervuren (BE)
Surface area: 200 m²
Year: 2019 -2021
Stability engineers: Verhelst engineers
Contractor: NAD sprl

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

Located in a green area, this villa is set on a sloped plot with strict rules for the building envelope. The building has an introvert front on the streetside and opens up to the garden on the lower part of the private plot. The living areas are on the top floor to enjoy the view with a large terrace. The night functions are located below, in connection with the calm and private garden.

JOOSTEFIEN

décembre, 2021

JOOSTEFIEN

Nursery and playground

Description: Nursery and municipal nursery school in Sint-Josse-ten-Noode
Type of project: Education
Type of customer: Public
Department: Renovation
Location: Sint-Josse-Ten-Noode, Brussels, (BE)
Surface area: 770 m²
Year: 2016-2021
Contractor: Socatra
Pictures: Delphine Mathy
Artist (facade): Madame la Belge

The renovation of the nursery of Sint-Josse-ten-Noode is intended to redefine access and communication between the various functions on the site, in particular by upgrading the connection between the kindergarden and the nursery, and creating access to the playground to link it to the nursery. It also plans to improve the visibility of the establishment from the street and to improve and optimize the spaces.

PONT

avril, 2021

PONT

A semi-detached house extended by a neighboring house to form a single project.

Description: Single Family House
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Location: Rebecq
Surface: 200 m²
Year: 2018-2019
Project Manager: Aurélie Maes

Located in Rebecq, the Rue du Pont is lined with modest red brick houses creating a homogeneous whole here and there visually interrupted by shop windows or more elaborate facades. Part of a group of 3 buildings arranged in a mirror image, the semi-detached houses have a sober front façade. As one of the houses was cramped, the owners made the judicious choice of acquiring the neighboring house and unifying them. By grouping the first floors, the living space takes on generous proportions and allows the annexes to be attached to the body of the main building, which allows more freedom on the rear façade to open generous bays towards the garden. The demolition of the party wall between the gardens of the two houses gives way to a terrace in dialogue with the kitchen. In an effort to be resilient, the structural interventions are left exposed and show the former division of the rooms. These lines punctuate the perspectives, and participate in the development of the free plan. The deliberately contemporary composition proposes a clerestory installation of the brick cladding, a mesh in which is inserted the entrance door of the apartment and allows the intimacy of the living room. The intervention allows to give a new life to the modest terraced houses by relying on and integrating its own characteristics but especially to create two large dwellings adapted to the current needs of the inhabitants without changing the volumes.