© Séverin Malaud

GOUNOD

GOOD TO LIVE, DIFFICULT TO BUILD, CIRCULAR TO BE

In Anderlecht’s Veeweyde district, three houses have to be demolished due to a stability problem in the nearby metro station. The Region wishes to replace them with a small building of housing assimilated to social housing, which will benefit from this residential and green environment, a stone’s throw from Parc Astrid and the Chaussée de Mons. A little further along, the Saint-Guidon and Rue Wayez district is being transformed and making more room for soft mobility.

The Region is looking for a multidisciplinary team of architects and stability engineers for this construction project, whose programme allows for a certain freedom in terms of functional layout, offering the opportunity to develop innovative spatial solutions.
The overall aim is to construct a building in line with a circular economy approach and to minimise the project’s environmental impact. The emphasis is on the spatial and technical reversibility of the project and on anticipating potential future transformations.
It will, of course, be necessary to take into account the difficulties of the terrain and to adapt the construction system to the structural demands.