Publication

What does circular architecture look like in Brussels today?

Over the last two decades, reuse has become a central element of the city’s architectural agenda, adopted by both public and private stakeholders, and stimulated by the BMA. While circularity now occupies a prominent place, it nevertheless takes many forms: from the reuse of materials to the conservation of structures, not forgetting questions of the future adaptability of projects.

CIVA, KU Leuven and BMA put the transformation of social housing built in the XXth century on the agenda. In the coming months, a series of three debates with clients, architects and other actors from the field will tackle the challenges linked to renovation: changing buildings, changing contexts, changing tempo.

In the article S'ouvrir aux autres (*Opening Up to Others), written by architect and author Cécile Vandernoot, A+ magazine features the renovation project of the Monty, a former cinema that has been home to the TOF Théâtre company for the past twenty years

As part of the Brussels Architecture Prize, Cygnes - an intergenerational project developing co-housing for seniors and a kindercafé - has been nominated in the Small Intervention category. A+ magazine features the project in a special issue, with an article by architect Amélie Poirel.

Launch of a beautiful book on the diversity of housing architecture in Brussels, featuring a presentation of the Tilleul project.

In the A+ magazine focusing on energy transition, the architect Gilles Debrun, author of the article Les germes d'un futur souhaitable (*The seeds of a desirable future), introduces the community housing project Seucha.

In a recent issue dedicated to rethinking the role of craftsmanship in architecture, A+ magazine features an article by architect Élodie Degavre exploring the idea of the Architect as Bricoleur as a promising approach to the profession. The piece draws on two projects developed by Karbon’: the Maison d’Henneyères, which embraces a craft-based construction imaginary and foregrounds the value of know-how, and an experimental wood-and-straw mock-up created  for the Thinking-Making academic symposium