a practice.

07. a cultural building
Renovation of the "Maison de la culture de Tournai"- Type: Culture
- Status: Competition, 1st prize / under development
- Date: 2010
- Program: 8.800 m² (without auditoriums) / Public library, auditoriums (400 seats, 800 seats and rehearsing room), offices dressing rooms, exhibition spaces, creation workshops, technical spaces
- Situation: Tournai, Belgium
- Client: Administration communale de la ville de Tournai / Fédération Wallonie - Bruxelles
- Budget: 6.500.000 €
- Signage study: MANUELA DECHAMPS OTAMENDI
- Artistic intervention: PIERRE LAUWERS
- Scenography equipments: CHANGEMENT A VUE
- Structural engineering: BUREAU D’ETUDE GREISCH
- Technical engineering: BUREAU DETANG
- Acoustic study: DAIDALOS PEUTZ
- Building costs: FORUM
First Prize of the competition organized by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, this project reveals the qualities of Tournai's community art center – a modernistic building drawn by Simone Guilissen Oha – by bringing out the building's existing structure and installing specific interventions in order to spatially re-qualify the multiple activities which occupy and share it.
06. a public building
Renovation of an existing office building- Type: Offices
- Status: Invited competition (:MLZD ARCHITEKTEN)
- Date: 2011
- Program: 30.000 m² / Offices, meeting rooms, auditoriums, meeting and consultation spaces, apartments
- Situation: Gent, Belgium
- Client: Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Budget: 30.000.000 €
- Collaboration: :MLZD ARCHITEKTEN, Switzerland
- Structural engineering: BUREAU D’ETUDE GREISCH
- Technical engineering: CENERGIE
- Acoustic study: DAIDALOS PEUTZ
- Facade study: VAN SANTEN & ASSOCIES
- Building costs: FORUM
On an existing shopping mall in Gent, this proposal sets three levels of typologies specifically required by the sheltered Provinciehuis functions.
05. a public building
Refurbishment of a fine large house for the Audiovisual Superior Council- Type: Offices
- Status: Invited competition
- Date: 2011
- Program: 1.200 m² / Offices, meeting rooms, consultation room, cafeteria
- Situation: Brussels, Belgium
- Client: Fédération Wallonie - Bruxelles
- Budget: 1.200.000 €
- Signage study: SALUTPUBLIC
- Structural engineering: BUREAU D’ETUDE GREISCH
- Technical engineering: BUREAU DETANG
By a set of slopes and staircases around a wide patio, this proposal brings together patrimonial qualities of the invested host house as much as the strong identity of the sheltered institution.
04. a loft
Refurbishment of a small house- Type: Housing
- Status: Completed
- Date: 2011
- Program: 150 m² / Living room, kitchen, bedrooms, sanitary
- Situation: Brussels, Belgium
- Client: n/a
- Budget: 50.000 €
- Photography: MARIE-FRANCOISE PLISSART
The refurbishment of this three storey mono-oriented apartment concentrates its functions and connections in a wooden monolith, offering wide living spaces along its unique facade.
03. a square
Urban renewal of a public space- Type: Public space
- Status: Competition, 1st prize / under development
- Date : 2010
- Program: 6.000 m² / Molenbeek-Saint-Jean square, Prado and Comte de Flandre streets refurbishment
- Situation: Brussels, Belgium
- Client: Service Public Fédéral Mobilité et Transport / BELIRIS
- Budget: 1.000.000 €
- Shared space study: PIERRE VANDERSTRAETEN
- Construction advising: ATELIER RUIMTELIJK ADVIES
First Prize of the competition organized by Beliris and the commune of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, this project brings back the existing square to its “open-air living room” position in the neighborhood with a facade to facade single stone-made floor and several urban events.
02. a school
Advanced technology center- Type: Education facilities
- Status: Competition, 1st prize / under development
- Date: 2010
- Program: 600 m² / Machines hall, class room, dining room, changing rooms, sanitary
- Situation: Morlanwelz, Belgium
- Client: Fédération Wallonie – Bruxelles, Administration Générale des Infrastructures
- Budget: 1.000.000 €
- Structural engineering: BUREAU D’ETUDE GREISCH
- Technical engineering: BUREAU DETANG
This project offers to Morlanwelz's timber school a new workshop spaciously designed. Two U shaped structure are joined: a concrete one as the basement of the building while an other one spreads out a wooden grid generously bringing light to the workspaces.
01. a loft
Refurbishment of an industrial building- Type: Housing
- Status: Completed (phase 1)
- Date: 2007-2010
- Program: 150 m² / Living room, kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, sanitary
- Situation: Brussels, Belgium
- Client: n/a
- Budget: 150.000 €
Contemporary architecture prize 2010 – Housing – Commune of Schaerbeek
Transformed into housing, this old industrial building is invested and underlined by a rough concrete helicoidal staircase stretching vertically through out all the living spaces.