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Brussels, Belgium
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H&B
Brussels, Belgium
Project Featured on May 25, 2021
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
The brief of this refurbishment consisted to develop a comics art gallery within an existing
lot which included a mixed architecture: an historical house and an 80’s sport club
depending from each other growing into the housing block. The contact with the public
space was non-existent.
The project answers identified problems: redefining access, rethinking the façade and
reinventing the inside block. To do so, a new door was cut into the historical house facade
to allow its accessibility from the street. This first step gives back to the front window its
original width. Each function finds then its autonomy. The project places all exhibition
spaces on the ground floor and offices above some of them. All exhibition spaces volumes
are rationalized, simplified in plan and section, double heights are created.
With:
-Primary spaces: treated as pure volume entirely dedicated to art and public.
-Secondary spaces: located on the plan’s outskirts containing technical, office spaces,
sanitary, stocks, …The plan offers a route to the visitor made of successive narrowing
and broadening, of height differences. It becomes a sort of interior street with facades.
The post-modern front window is kept for its singularity, integrating a bigger glass curtain
centred on the project’s main perspective leading the visitor from the street to the end
of the inside block. This refurbishment gives to Huberty & Breyne the biggest European
comics art gallery position. All new and existing partitions have been isolated to answer
the latest ecological Belgian rules. It was a priority to drive this project as an exemplary
refurbishment in terms of sustainability. All materials and details have been thought as
pure as possible in order to fade in comparison to the artwork, to enhance it.
lot which included a mixed architecture: an historical house and an 80’s sport club
depending from each other growing into the housing block. The contact with the public
space was non-existent.
The project answers identified problems: redefining access, rethinking the façade and
reinventing the inside block. To do so, a new door was cut into the historical house facade
to allow its accessibility from the street. This first step gives back to the front window its
original width. Each function finds then its autonomy. The project places all exhibition
spaces on the ground floor and offices above some of them. All exhibition spaces volumes
are rationalized, simplified in plan and section, double heights are created.
With:
-Primary spaces: treated as pure volume entirely dedicated to art and public.
-Secondary spaces: located on the plan’s outskirts containing technical, office spaces,
sanitary, stocks, …The plan offers a route to the visitor made of successive narrowing
and broadening, of height differences. It becomes a sort of interior street with facades.
The post-modern front window is kept for its singularity, integrating a bigger glass curtain
centred on the project’s main perspective leading the visitor from the street to the end
of the inside block. This refurbishment gives to Huberty & Breyne the biggest European
comics art gallery position. All new and existing partitions have been isolated to answer
the latest ecological Belgian rules. It was a priority to drive this project as an exemplary
refurbishment in terms of sustainability. All materials and details have been thought as
pure as possible in order to fade in comparison to the artwork, to enhance it.
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