VALDUC

septembre, 2025

VALDUC

Filling the Gap: Living in the Heart of the Block

Description: New Constructions in Auderghem

Partners of collaboration: GNS Architects
Type of project: Residential
Type of customer: Private
Department: New Construction
Location: Auderghem, Brussels (BE)
Year: 2022 – 2025

pictures: Delphine Mathy

The project is composed of three distinct volumes, each designed in relation to its context and use, with adapted volumetric choices and materials.

On the street front, the first building fills the gap with a three-storey structure (ground floor + 2 + roof). The open ground floor forms a generous passage that provides access to the site, maintains visual transparency towards the interior courtyard, and creates breathing space in the narrow street. On the upper floors, two two-bedroom apartments benefit from living rooms facing the street and recessed terraces, while the top floor accommodates a studio under the roof with a terrace oriented towards the gardens. The façades and roofs align with the neighboring building, combining red-beige brickwork with aluminum frames and off-white lacquered metalwork.

The second volume, along the party wall, provides five covered parking spaces, arranged diagonally around a maneuvering area and sheltered by a greened metal canopy.

At the back of the plot, the third volume houses two single-family homes (188 m² each). Their three-sided layout, shallow floor plan, and large windows maximize natural light and foster a strong relationship with the gardens. Successive façade setbacks break down the volumes and create areas of privacy, while the side façades are blind at upper levels to protect neighbors’ privacy. The use of white matte glazed brick and lacquered steel emphasizes a luminous, monochrome character and helps reduce the visual impact within the block.

The landscaping strengthens this architectural approach: the demolition of the former parking structures opens up the site and allows the lowering of certain party walls in agreement with neighbors. A planted pedestrian path structures circulation and creates a convivial atmosphere.

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.

ESCRIMES

juin, 2023

ESCRIME

Juxtapositional extension connected to a 1930’s house.

Description: Extension of a family house
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Woluwe Saint Lambert, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: m²
Year: 2022-2023
Contractor: MRB BATIMENT sprl

Pictures: Cinzia Romanin

The project calls for the creation of a garden-side extension to accommodate a living room in contact with the garden. This new volume is designed as a link between the outdoor space and the kitchen. The transition between

The transition between levels is ensured by a mid-height position between the garden level and the ground floor.

The interior spaces are largely open between the dining room and kitchen and between the kitchen and living room.

The position of the extension is designed to limit its impact on the useful, sunny garden space.

In terms of architectural language, the expression is resolutely contemporary but is based on the reinterpretation of certain compositional elements of the existing house, such as the cornice overhangs.

ALSEMBERG

septembre, 2022

ALSEMBERG

Family house in Uccle

Description: Transformation and renovation of an warehouse into a residential housing.
Type of project: Housing – Familyhouse
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Uccle, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 280 m²
Year: 2020-2022
Pictures: Delphine Mathy
Contractor: MP instal
Stability engineers : Verhelst Engineers
Collaboration : BC architect, Rotor
PEB: Coralie Van Pottelsberghe

Located in Uccle in the interior of a city block, an aluminum coloring warehouse that had been abandoned for more than 10 years was converted into a passive house for the owners.

The ensemble formed by the carriage entrance and the abandoned warehouse covers the entire plot. It offers sufficient surfaces and sizes for the development of their personal project.

The concept is simple: to work on the void. By creating a patio at the entrance and a garden at the back, the project can develop the necessary and sufficient facade surfaces to bring natural light into all the living rooms, entirely glazed. By adding a floor in the existing template, we provide the additional floor areas necessary for the program, while promoting the compactness of the whole and thus ensuring better energy performance. More fundamentally, this work allows the restoration of open spaces and the block is considerably aerated.

The structure is mixed: slab and floor in reinforced concrete for thermal inertia, spans and the absence of finishing, steel posts fully integrated into the insulated walls, steel frame entirely made with the elements of the existing dismantled frame.

Inside, the floors were made of rammedearth and the walls were plastered with clay, two totally circular products, made from the unpolluted and undisturbed excavated earth of the urban sites of Brussels. The terrazzo terrace slabs are made from reused materials (dismantled facades).

The workshop is covered with galvanized corrugated sheets selected for their low cost, longevity and ability to reflect solar heat. The same criteria determined the choice of anodized aluminum frames. The industrial language is a deliberate nod to the workshop’s past.

DEBUE

juillet, 2022

DEBUE

Conversion of a commercial building into a mixed building

Description: 3 apartments and a shop on the ground floor
Type of project: Mixed building
Type of customer: Private
Department: Demolition and construction
Location: Uccle, Brussels, (BE)
Surface area: 370 m²
Year: 2018-2020
Contractor: ITD construct sprl
Engineers: Verhelst engineers

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

In the heart of the animation of the Xavier de Bue shopping street in Uccle, the Debue project aims to rehabilitate the floors of commercial houses in order to bring to life the commercial edges outside business hours.