Typology |
Domestic Ecologies |
Program |
Apartment |
Location |
BE |
Year |
2016-2026 |
Status |
Built |
Budget in € |
500 000 |
Size in sqm |
300 |
Selection Process |
Direct commission |
Client |
Confidential |
Team |
Pierre Escobar, Yannick Vanhaelen, Philippe De Clerck, Julien Deloffre, Jan Geks |
Photo Credits |
Nico Neefs, Tim Van De Velde |
Brusilia
: Modernist LoftAs part of an ongoing exploration of the Brusilia Tower, we have engaged in the transformation of several apartments, using each intervention as an opportunity to test spatial typologies capable of gradually rethinking the tower from within. Rather than a singular project, this work unfolds as a series of precise operations, suggesting how a modernist structure can be adapted, inhabited, and reinterpreted over time.
Read moreWith most apartments overlooking a predominantly low-rise city, the project seeks to reconcile the interior with the vastness of the surrounding landscape. Two radical yet complementary actions define the approach.
First, all non-structural interior walls are removed, fully embracing the condition of the dwelling: a space suspended in the air, entirely shaped by its relationship to the horizon. The apartmens are no longer conceived as a sequence of rooms, but as a continuous field, where living unfolds in direct dialogue with the outside.
Second, a singular, multiform piece of furniture is introduced around the central cores. Acting as both infrastructure and inhabitable object, it accommodates the various functions of domestic life through flexible and evolving configurations. Rather than fixing uses, it allows them to shift over time, reflecting a more open and contemporary way of living.
Through this dual strategy, the project questions how to inhabit modernist heritage today by engaging it as a living structure, capable of transformation, appropriation, and renewed forms of domesticity.
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