Biobased

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.

What's Already There approaches the question of sustainable architecture through six Brussels projects, ranging from the detached house to the cultural facility.

The exhibition was curated by Pauline Lefebvre and Thomas Vilquin (ULB) and presented in Washington (National Building Museum). It notably features the Vignette project, which incorporates themes of timber construction, second-hand materials (reclaimed brick facades), and biobased materials (straw and hemp-lime).

On the occasion of the Thinking-Making symposium organised by the ULB and the ULg, Karbon' proposed the ‘reflexive assembly’ of a 1:1 scale model, exploring a construction system with a wooden and straw frame developed by the craftsman carpenter Gautier Nagant. This mock-up was a life-size experiment, a moment when the act of building is shared to bring out new knowledge.