Student housing and coworking with art integration in Brussels
Shortlisted competition – 1st Prize
Status : Phase Permit
Collaborators : AHA, V+, Antoine Espinasseau
For : Private client
Size : 860 m2
Budget : 950.000 €

Photographs : Antoine Espinasseau (site and first model)
Team members : Aurélie Hachez, Gautier Rey, Elseline Bazin

The new student residence K-DRUUM, part of a pilot program ‘Students making the city’, is an opportunity to think about the reciprocal input between the student and the neighbourhood. The programme has an ambition to create synergies between professional, cultural and student lives, together with opening this diversity to the public. The project offers the quality of a single-family house, being modest and intimate, while being porous on its ground floor to provide a public facility open to the city. Within the plot, the small and anecdotal chapel of ‘Notre Dame du Sommeil’ is the last witness of this folkloric neighbourhood named ‘the devil’s corner’. Wishing to instil this strangeness within the project, we created, in collaboration with artist Antoine Espinasseau, an art piece with this chapel and a series of doors in cork generating ambiguous interactions between the rooms.