Due to its particular situation in the historical heart of Brussels, just a few steps from the Grande Place, and its stirring construction history, this project constitutes an urbanistic and architectural challenge. With the residential project ‘Îlot Sacré’, conceived for Galika and of which the works started in May 2015, one of the rare remaining fallow pieces of land within the UNESCO world heritage perimeter in the Belgian capital will be given a new destination. The project has a resolutely contemporary character, but respectfully inscribes itself in the historical urban fabric. Its architecture and implantation engage in a dialogue with the existing built environment and pubic space and contribute to its animation, but at the same time create a pleasant and quiet place to live in. Alleys disappeared over time are made visible again, enlarged and relied, creating a network of pedestrian streets that stretches around a central semi-public place at the interior of the building block. The architecture is clear and readable, offering a different approach for the project’s public and semi-public/private parts and referring to the existing architecture in the quarter.
- Typology
- Logements multiples
- Status
- En construction
- Year of delivery
- 2017
- Client
- Galika
