Description: Transformation of a family house into 2 appartements
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Public – Municipality of Forest, Brussels
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Forest, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 300m²
Year: 2022
Stability engineers: Mathieu Collard
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
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.
Extension of a villa
Description: Transformation and extension of a single house
Type of project: House
Type of customer: Private
Department: Extension and renovation
Location: Enghien (BE)
Surface area: 323 m²
Year: 2019-2020
Stability engineers: Verhelst engineers
Contractor: ITD construct sprl
Pictures: Delphine Mathy
Located in Enghien, the Nazareth red brick house is composed with 3 houses in a row visually interrupted by windows or more elaborate facades. 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 intervention to the backfacade is mainly the extention, a modest volume wich give a lot of light.
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.
Transformation of family house
Description: Transformation and renovation of a family house
Type of project: Housing
Type of customer: Private
Department: Transformation and renovation
Location: Berchem Sint Agathe, Brussels (BE)
Surface area: 200 m²
Year: 2016-2017
This is a single-family, built on a rectangular parcel of land on a street with heterogeneous architecture.
The project consists in recreating a single-family house, transforming and extending the living spaces, bringing in more light, and taking advantage of views on the garden side. A particularity of the site and of the house is that the cellars have high ceilings and open directly onto the garden. Part of the cellars were therefore used for the kitchen and dining room.
For the whole of the living room, the desire is to enlarge the living space.
A black corrugated sheet metal cladding responds to the cladding of a warehouse located at the bottom of the plot.
The front facade has not been modified in order to preserve the identity of the place.
