ARTAN

ARTAN

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.

COURONNE

COURONNE

COURONNE

A new cultural center for Ixelles

Description: renovation and transformation of an old villa into a socio-cultural facility in Ixelles

Partners of collaboration: TAKTYK Landscape Urbanism – ND Stabilité – DÉTANG Engineering – ASM Acoustics
Type of project: Cultural
Type of customer: Public
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Ixelles, Brussels (BE)
Year: 2023

The proposal for the contest consists in a punctual transformation of the existing. The site of 40 avenue de la Couronne is an incredible site with impressive architectural and landscape qualities.

Originally, the existing house had been conceived as a generous private house. The contest offers to transform it into a cultural center which generates various technical adaptations. (fire security, structural adjustments, etc.)

The project’s mission is to visualize and value the existing qualities, to create a path through the topography of the site, to secure the different accesses and to transform the villa in a friendly and welcoming place for the users of the future cultural center.

The interventions are mainly limited to the essential, through a detailed analysis of existing spaces and based on an inventory of materials. The renovation follows an acupuncture approach: restoring a wall to consolidate, open spaces to gather volumes or create an opening to bring light and garden views into the heart of the center. All within the respect of the heritage value and the material life cycle.

The major architectural intervention is situated outside the building, huge terraces are creating several stunning views above the district. The proposed structure is transforming itself into an architectural ribbon creating new links.

The morphology of the site creates a huge gab in the neighborhood. The idea of the landscape design turns around the approach of creating a gateway between the popular district of rue Gray and the upscale district of avenue de la Couronne. A delicate suspended structure develops itself along the existing topography and above the vegetation of the wooded hillside. An architectural promenade invites the users to discover several outdoor spaces along the walkway. A green theater, vegetable gardens and various spaces designed with a scenography approach are hosting various activities of the cultural center.

SAINT-ANTOINE

SAINT-ANTOINE

SAINT-ANTOINE

Design of a playground for a primary and kindergarten school, renovation of the existing buildings

Description: Transformation of the playground and renovation of the school (primary and kindergarten)
Type of project: Education
Type of customer: Public
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Forest, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 800
Year: in progress

ALSEMBERG

ALSEMBERG

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

DEBUE

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.