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City Gate 1 Marchandises
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Anderlecht, Anderlecht, Belgium
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City Gate 1 Marchandises
Anderlecht, Anderlecht, Belgium
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
A mixed-use urban block reconnecting housing, production, and everyday life.
Located at the intersection of Anderlecht, Cureghem, the canal district, and Brussels Midi station, Citygate I – Marchandises transforms a fragmented industrial brownfield into a new productive urban ecosystem. The 21,000 m² project combines affordable housing, workshops, offices, retail, childcare facilities, and shared public spaces within a single coherent structure.
The project starts from a fundamental urban question:
how can production return to the contemporary city?
Instead of separating living and working, the project creates a dense hybrid system where housing, light industry, economic activities, and community life coexist. Developed within the framework of Brussels’ “productive city” strategy, the building becomes an urban hinge reconnecting formerly isolated territories around the railway infrastructure.
A ring-shaped block encloses a large planted courtyard functioning as a collective landscape. Three towers along the railway maximize daylight, views, and acoustic protection, while lower connecting volumes stitch the project into the surrounding urban fabric.
At the core of the project lies the BAM concept — Bâtiment à Affectations Multiples — a reversible architectural system based on a modular structural grid. Housing, offices, workshops, and productive activities share the same spatial logic, allowing programs to evolve over time without altering the building’s structure. Flexibility is not cosmetic. It is structural.
The architectural language draws from the site’s industrial heritage: concrete brick façades, exposed structural logic, prefabricated systems, and repetitive modular rhythms generate a robust but adaptable framework. Daylight, natural ventilation, rainwater reuse, biodiversity corridors, and green roofs are fully integrated into the project’s environmental strategy.
Shared circulation systems connect streets, gardens, rooftops, and productive spaces, transforming the block into a porous social infrastructure. Public and private, work and living, production and landscape continuously overlap.
The project does not simply mix functions.
It reorganizes relationships between them.
Not a residential block with amenities—
but a prototype for the regenerative productive city.
Located at the intersection of Anderlecht, Cureghem, the canal district, and Brussels Midi station, Citygate I – Marchandises transforms a fragmented industrial brownfield into a new productive urban ecosystem. The 21,000 m² project combines affordable housing, workshops, offices, retail, childcare facilities, and shared public spaces within a single coherent structure.
The project starts from a fundamental urban question:
how can production return to the contemporary city?
Instead of separating living and working, the project creates a dense hybrid system where housing, light industry, economic activities, and community life coexist. Developed within the framework of Brussels’ “productive city” strategy, the building becomes an urban hinge reconnecting formerly isolated territories around the railway infrastructure.
A ring-shaped block encloses a large planted courtyard functioning as a collective landscape. Three towers along the railway maximize daylight, views, and acoustic protection, while lower connecting volumes stitch the project into the surrounding urban fabric.
At the core of the project lies the BAM concept — Bâtiment à Affectations Multiples — a reversible architectural system based on a modular structural grid. Housing, offices, workshops, and productive activities share the same spatial logic, allowing programs to evolve over time without altering the building’s structure. Flexibility is not cosmetic. It is structural.
The architectural language draws from the site’s industrial heritage: concrete brick façades, exposed structural logic, prefabricated systems, and repetitive modular rhythms generate a robust but adaptable framework. Daylight, natural ventilation, rainwater reuse, biodiversity corridors, and green roofs are fully integrated into the project’s environmental strategy.
Shared circulation systems connect streets, gardens, rooftops, and productive spaces, transforming the block into a porous social infrastructure. Public and private, work and living, production and landscape continuously overlap.
The project does not simply mix functions.
It reorganizes relationships between them.
Not a residential block with amenities—
but a prototype for the regenerative productive city.
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