A brick building with a tree growing behind it and graffiti on the wall. Trash is on the sidewalk in front of the building.
A small urban backyard with potted plants along the brick building wall, a gravel path, an outdoor table, and a small garden area with bushes and trees, surrounded by multi-story brick residential buildings.
A cobblestone pathway in a small garden area next to a brick building with wooden window shutters, surrounded by green trees and plants.
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  • The project transforms a former industrial complex in the Maritime District of Molenbeek into a mixed-use living and working environment organized around a central garden. Rooted in a careful and ambitious renovation approach, the project embraces the existing typological diversity of the site while introducing new programs including housing, workshops, offices and shared collective spaces.

    Through a restrained and evolving architectural intervention, the project seeks to strengthen the relationship between housing, cultural activities and neighbourhood life. Existing industrial structures are preserved and reinterpreted to support an open, flexible and collaborative program.

    The project is structured around three layers of outdoor spaces: a planted communal courtyard, a flexible and polyvalent winter garden, and a more intimate elevated garden suspended above the site.

  • Le Lorrain
    Rehabilitation and reconversion of a little factory into housing, workshops, and multipurpose spaces + 3 level outdoor spaces: central courtyard, winter garden, hanging garden.

    Molenbeek-Saint-Jean 
    2019 – ongoing 

    Model + Photos ©Nicolas Jonard

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