Description
This co-housing project is located in the new Tivoli neighbourhood in Laeken near the canal. One of the scheme’s particularities is its emphyteutic lease, which remains the property of the Tivoli public developer. The project includes various collective spaces for the residents: a garden, a community room on the ground floor, and another on the top floor opening onto a large roof terrace. The six-level building volume is set above a basement that accommodates parking for seven cars and 20 bicycles. The ground floor is slightly raised from the street to ensure privacy for the living spaces. It accommodates a large hall serving an apartment, the community room in connection with the garden, and a vertical core. On the upper floors, this vertical core serves an exterior gallery that gives access to two dwellings. Two bedrooms located on the gallery have French windows that provide independent access and further subdivision of the apartments if necessary. In total, the project consists of nine dwellings of three to four bedrooms. All have large south-oriented terraces and the first-floor dwellings enjoy direct access to the garden via a private staircase. The project has load-bearing façades that allow the interior spaces to be laid out in a free plan. The red-brick façades are fitted with black aluminium frames and steel railings.
Exterior view
Interior view
Originally published in: Gérald Ledent, Alessandro Porotto, Brussels Housing. Atlas of Residential Building Types, Birkhäuser, 2023.