SILENT SERVANTS | Carlos Bártolo

Tipology: Residential & Office building Rehabilitation

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Date: 01/2021

Silent Servants is located in the Brussels and is a rehabilitation of two buildings parelel to each other.The big building houses the housing part of the program and the small building the offices. The vertical accesses remain as the original buildings to preserve their structure. Whenever the facades present an archshaped glass, the floor is double height. Each building has a crown. The crown of the big building has a daycare and the crown of the small building is dedicated to meeting rooms with a viewpoint.

Objectives:

• Enrich the original building with more light;

• Connection between public spaces & living spaces;

• Creation of office spaces where the play of the slabs results in different relations on each floor;

• Visibility in the facade whenever a floor is doble height.

• Creation of building crowns to enlarge the public program of the building

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Facade detail

Exterior view