With the BMA Label, we support unsolicited proposals emerging from citizen initiatives, research, or practice that are still in their early stages. Many projects are born from a relevant intuition, but often lack a concrete client, a budget, a timeline, or political contacts to be brought to life. The BMA Label aims not only to help these projects emerge, but also to offer them visibility, guidance, and dedicated funding.

In this context, BMA invites you to discover the publication FORM FOLLOWS INSULATION – Thickness to rehabilitate heritage, developed within the framework of the 2022 BMA Label and led by Barrault Pressacco. This research explores how the constraint of thermal insulation—far from being a limitation—can become an architectural opportunity. Rooted in the Brussels context, it focuses on a bio-based material — hemp-lime — to reflect on the act of renovating: Can we insulate without erasing? Can insulation become structure, façade, expression?

This work invites us to see thickness not as a constraint, but as a space for invention, a support for new forms, right at the heart of today’s challenges related to the energy transition.

FORM FOLLOWS INSULATION will be presented during a book launch event.