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.

GAY

avril, 2022

GAY

Construction of an appartement building

Description: Apartment building
Type of project: Residential
Type of customer: Private
Department: Construction
Location: Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 560 m²
Year: 2020-ongoing

The project consists to work with the void. In order to lighten the volumetry, large bays cut in the masonry mass of beams and
columns. The bow-window recalls the projections of the surrounding buildings and allows to increase the surfaces of living areas and terraces.
The choice of material for the facade was made in a yellow-orange brick color scheme, similar to the existing facade of the street.
fifty meters higher. This choice allows to increase the direct integration of the project between its neighboring houses but also in the surrounding context where we find facades in red, beige, yellow or reddish bricks.

At the back, a workshop is fitted out. By creating a patio at the back and a garden at the front, the project is able to develop the necessary and sufficient facade surfaces to bring natural light into all the living rooms.

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.

SAVOIE II

juillet, 2019

SAVOIE

Four apartments

Description: Transformation of a single house into 4 apartments
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Saint-Gilles, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 380 m²
Year: 2020
Stability engineers: Verhelst engineers
Contractor: VICTRO sprl

Pictures: Delphine Mathy

The Savoie project is located in the heart of the town of Saint-Gilles, halfway between the town square and Forest Park. It reinterprets the garden facade of a house dating from 1911 with four apartments to meet current housing expectations.

LONGUE

juillet, 2019

LONGUE HAIE

Conversion of a former hospice into a 10 apartments building

Description: transformation of an old hospice into a 10-family building
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation
Location: Linkebeek, Vlanderen (BE)
Surface area: 760 m²
Year: 2016-2019

Located in a green area of Linkebeek, the former hospice on rue de la Longue Haie has been transformed into an apartment building. Taking advantage of the existing volume, the project aims to offer architectural quality to the housing by working on the composition of the façades, the addition of suspended terraces and the treatment of the surroundings.

Picture credit : Fred Sablon