Saint-Gilles is a quite-dense neighborhood in Brussels characterised by a great mix of housing and industry. That mix creates a typological disorder that is present at the city-block the project is located in.
A new type of cooperative services creates and manages new ways of working in a world that is more divided than ever.This innovative activity only occupied a house at the beginning, but it takes now almost half of the city block thanks to a huge development.
Two disorders overlap.

We were asked to build a new entrance and meeting points (reception, cafeteria, conference room, offices) which would be adaptable in this labyrinthine structure. All this within a very short deadline and a moderate budget.

Architecture, from set-up to furniture design, seeks to reveal the potential of existing spaces with a delicate touch through typologies, views, sequences, light, materials. In order to achieve this objective, many parts and functions are reshaped : reorganizing things to ensure spatial-fluidity and functional-clarity, managing symbolic issues of hierarchy.

Special attention has been paid to the different atmospheres. In a way, the project plays with this “adhocism” that leads for example to a great diversity of furnitures : pink trolleys in the office spaces, big white continuum at the entrance, a bar that is nearly typographic. Moreover, a brick wall or a cement floor…could be kept as they were or painted/coated, according to the context.

Double-door entrance is also revealing … a banal front door ( a type nearly outrageously rustic ) is impressive in this context, with its surface and its very functionalist handle. Next, a very open frame with an original geometry guides the visitor through the entrance.

Renovation of offices building Le Marquis for Ageas, Fortis Real Estate.

The project consisted of renovating a platform in the Marquis building, with the aim to develop a calm and unified space for all offices and an extremely carefully representative space for the boardroom and the executive offices.
These features of unification and peace were obtained by using monochrome white walls and by placing the partitions on judicious location - that are established according to the specific shape of the building. Both parties: offices and representative spaces are combined in a single research of abstraction, obtained by different architectural methods, even slightly opposed.

Transformation of an industrial space into offices for the graphic design studio Base Design.

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Development of a shared offices platform.