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Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Science 12
Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Lighting the corner.
A climate-responsive office building generated by daylight.
Located at the intersection of Rue Belliard and Rue de la Science in Brussels’ European district, Science 12 transforms a constrained 653 m² corner plot into a new urban interface. The project replaces an outdated mid-century office building with a contemporary workplace structured on the district’s characteristic 1.35-meter office grid.
The project starts from a precise environmental question:
can natural light shape the façade itself?
Already designed to meet Passive House principles and BREEAM Excellent certification, the building uses parametric design not as formal expression, but as an environmental tool. A custom script calibrated solar exposure, glare, and daylight autonomy across every façade orientation.
This generated a system of 50 cm-deep copper-colored aluminum fins, each individually oriented according to environmental performance. The result is a façade that improves daylight autonomy by approximately 5–10% while reducing overheating and cooling demand.
What appears as a rhythmic architectural language is in reality the direct translation of climatic data into built form. The bronze-toned vertical blades create depth, vibration, and tactility within a district dominated by flat glass façades and infrastructural monotony.
At ground level, the project also shifts the urban logic of the European Quarter. The recessed plinth enlarges the public realm where sidewalks were previously reduced to less than 1.8 meters by traffic infrastructure. A transparent double-height base hosts hospitality functions and office lobbies, reconnecting interior activity with street life.
Rooftop gardens, planted terraces, reused materials, and flexible floorplates complete a building conceived as a long-term adaptable system rather than a static office object.
Science 12 demonstrates that environmental performance does not constrain architecture.
It can generate its identity.
Not a façade applied to a building—
but daylight made visible.
A climate-responsive office building generated by daylight.
Located at the intersection of Rue Belliard and Rue de la Science in Brussels’ European district, Science 12 transforms a constrained 653 m² corner plot into a new urban interface. The project replaces an outdated mid-century office building with a contemporary workplace structured on the district’s characteristic 1.35-meter office grid.
The project starts from a precise environmental question:
can natural light shape the façade itself?
Already designed to meet Passive House principles and BREEAM Excellent certification, the building uses parametric design not as formal expression, but as an environmental tool. A custom script calibrated solar exposure, glare, and daylight autonomy across every façade orientation.
This generated a system of 50 cm-deep copper-colored aluminum fins, each individually oriented according to environmental performance. The result is a façade that improves daylight autonomy by approximately 5–10% while reducing overheating and cooling demand.
What appears as a rhythmic architectural language is in reality the direct translation of climatic data into built form. The bronze-toned vertical blades create depth, vibration, and tactility within a district dominated by flat glass façades and infrastructural monotony.
At ground level, the project also shifts the urban logic of the European Quarter. The recessed plinth enlarges the public realm where sidewalks were previously reduced to less than 1.8 meters by traffic infrastructure. A transparent double-height base hosts hospitality functions and office lobbies, reconnecting interior activity with street life.
Rooftop gardens, planted terraces, reused materials, and flexible floorplates complete a building conceived as a long-term adaptable system rather than a static office object.
Science 12 demonstrates that environmental performance does not constrain architecture.
It can generate its identity.
Not a façade applied to a building—
but daylight made visible.
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