Description
This social-housing apartment building is located in Forest commune on a large – 17 m – plot angled at 60 degrees to the street. The interior partitioning of the building is organised in relation to the geometry of the plot, with four parallel bays, two 4 m wide on the sides and two 3.5 m wide in the middle. In the centre of the building, a monumental entrance porch closed by a wrought-iron gate leads to an exterior hall, followed by a few steps that connect to an interior hall serving a stairwell. The staircase serves eight apartments on four levels. The geometry of the apartments, at an angle to the street, results in small triangular terraces on the street side.
Each dwelling has a large entrance hall and two bedrooms. At the rear, there is a kitchen, a laundry room, and a toilet opening onto a terrace. The building has four levels under a flat roof. The façade is made of cement and grey concrete on a blue-limestone base and is topped by a high wooden cornice. On the ground floor, the entrance porch is particularly elaborate, with two pilasters and side windows with curved edges.
Exterior view
Facade detail
Originally published in: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser, 2023.