Description

This project, located in an affluent neighbourhood and intended for well-off residents, is set on two symmetrical triangular plots located on Brussels’ largest roundabout. It features two identical but mirrored buildings forming the entrance to the Avenue de Broqueville. The ground floor is occupied by two shops separated by the entrance hall.

Given the very narrow proportions of the plot (32 m long, and 7 m maximum width), the upper levels overhang the ground floor by almost 1 m. Each floor accommodates a single identical apartment. In the dwellings, every room opens directly onto the avenue. The common staircase with a lift is located against the party wall. It opens onto a wide hall that divides the apartment into two zones. Towards the roundabout, there is a dining room and a living room that extends into a rotunda. At the other end, there is a kitchen, two bedrooms, and a bathroom.

The six-storey building is topped by an attic level and a flat roof. Its façades are in stone-like plaster. All the bays are fitted with ironwork railings with Art Deco motifs. The overhang of the floors is achieved by the addition of four bay-windows of different sizes and shapes. At the roundabout end, the rotunda is topped by a small dome.

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Originally published in: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser, 2023.