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MOBILIS
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MOBILIS
Along the Brussels canal, an area in full transformation, a building for the mobility of the future is rising. The evolution of the automotive sector is in full swing but is at the same time uncertain. Driven by new technologies and the sharing economy, the usual concepts about the car workshop or showroom can be questioned, or even disappear in the future. We are therefore thinking about a generic building type with a structure designed to host any kind of activity. The Garage 2.0.
The building, composed by a completely rational structure on the inside, simultaneously gives shape on the outside to the amorphous boundary of the plot and the urban boulevards, ramps and turning circles. A series of thematic patios provide daylight, spatial experience and relations between programs.
Landscape, urban ambitions, logistics and architecture create one inseparable whole. Production, innovation, but also local programs for a neighbourhood in full transition are taking shape here. With mobility in its broadest sense as a central theme, a vibrant mix is thus achieved.
Along the Brussels canal, an area in full transformation, a building for the mobility of the future is rising. The evolution of the automotive sector is in full swing but is at the same time …
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2019255 MOBILIS
Competition, 1st Prize, ongoing
CityBrussels
Programmixed use
Year2019
ProcedureCompetition, 1st Prize
Statusongoing
ClientD'Ieteren Immo
Total floor area23.000 m²
ArchitectsXDGA
Structural engineerUtil Struktuurstudies
Mechanical engineerStudiebureau Boydens
ModelXDGA
Building area10.000 m²
ConsultantHealth Security Securisan / Signalisation Pam & Jenny
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Ideally architecture is not about fixing activities, fluxes or programs, or worse, about solving spatial problems. On the contrary, it is about opening up possibilities: the potential of a site, the hidden opportunity of a particular situation in time, of a programmatic conflict. It is about dealing with uncertainty, about enabling different and unforeseen scenarios.
In that sense architecture and urbanism are not opposed disciplines with different outcomes, but similar mediators, on different scales and in different degrees of complexity, with the same goal of enabling life.
The basis for architecture in our way of working is to carry out a meticulous scanning of a brief, a program or a context. Context not just as that what physically surrounds a project, but the larger field of social, economic, political, administrative and also technical issues, all on an equal level. This activity of accurate and systematic reading leads to a matrix of knowledge that frames any architectural decision. Sometimes this framework functions as a backdrop for postponed intuitions, sometimes it forms the battlefield for a bombardment of architectural proposals that slowly gain self-evidence through a process of trial and error.
The scanning raises new questions, opens up unexplored fields, reveals hidden opportunities, or brings together so-called incompatibilities. Through this working method all projects are rooted in their context, but as context has a visible and a hidden part, they often surpass their physical context and they sometimes completely transform it.
This explorative approach leads to a working method, not a style. Instead, style is restrictive to exploration. Our approach saves us from dogmatic thinking, from an all too narrow agenda, from the architectural one-liner.
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Doug Allard, David Ampe, Vincent Blactot, Tom Bonnevalle, Maud Bouhin, Lionel Bousquet, Jérémie Brault, Karel Bruyland, Rémy Carat, Elena Caruso, Antoine Chaudemanche, Pieter Coelis, Beatrice Colaiacomo, Marie Debraine, Xaveer De Geyter, Joris De Greef, Hanne Defloor, Thaïs de Roquemaurel, Chloé de Salins, Jacqueline De Souza Luduvice, Pieter De Walsche, Nenad Duric, Eleonor Ferragu, Sandra Fol, Eric Gilham, Arie Gruijters, Annelotte Herrebosch, Ingrid Huyghe, Yannis Igodt, Ménélik Jobert, Paul-Emmanuel Lambert, Solène Le Gallo, Jonathan Robert Maj, Leo Mazurek, Philip Niekamp, Emilia Ockerman, Federico Pedrini, Anne-Sophie Rouillère, Yuichiro Suzuki, Hannelore Thomas, Foucault Tiberghien, Greta Torsello, Willem Van Besien, Wouter van Daele, Catherine Van Driessche, Matthias Van Rossen, Marie-Pierre Vandeputte, Dana Vargovčíková, Simon Vellut, Yannick Vergnaud, Samia Wahbi, Ulysse Zehnlé, Rui Zenha
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