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CREATE SPACES AND FACILITIES
BRUSSELS’LOCATIONS FOR COMERS AND GOERS.
The International Montgomery School is a primary and middle school that aims to support the expatriate community and local families. It is located in the heart of Brussels, near the European institutions, that attracts many expat families. The school is located in a typical Belgian ‘maison de maitre’ that has been renovated to accommodate 130 pupils.
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THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MONTGOMERY
THE LOCATIONS
THE PORT D’ULYSSE
The Port d’Ulysse, is a whole new located place in Schaerbeek. This center provides a warm, dry and secure place where homeless mi grants can stay each night. The Brussels government decided to move the center recently, in the former buildings of Be-TV. Meanwhile it not being a good example as a building for the city of comings and goings, because of it being only for a temporary period. Knowing that the old building had plans to house a police station. It still shows how easily adaptable and robust architecture can be.
Chinatown are ethnic enclaves and exist all around the world in places where mass migration of Chinese people took place. Brussels Chinatown located mostly on the Saint-catherine street, featuring it’s typical image. Chinese restaurants, chinese supermarkets, chinese pastry shops, chinese game shop, hair dressing saloon, art gallery, travel businesses and has even their own newspaper, the capital news. Chinatowns mostly develop within existing neighborhoods and buildings, playing that dual role of a space with mix cultural interaction while also catering to the needs of local Chinese community.
CHINA TOWN
THE MATONGÉ QUARTER
The Matongé quarter used to serve as a centre for all kind of coloni al services from the Belgian Congo. With a huge influx, matongé quarter started to look like small African infrastructure. This place grew into a meeting place, for communities while staying very international. Nowadays, Matongé has kept it’s name, with all it’s colorful stores.