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Re-Imagining CIVA

2021 

Status: Competition - Europan E16
Location: Bruxelles (B)
Client: Europan
Design team: Alexander Petrounine, Ignacio Flores
Size: 9980 m2
Program: Transformation and vertical extension

With the relocation of the CIVA  together with its activities and collections, will leave in its place a building with a strong cultural presence; not only within the neighbourhood, but also within the city of Brussels and beyond. We believe that the character for which the building was so well known for, can be the starting point for formulating a strategy for the re-development of the CIVA-site. We envision a radical re-imagining of the CIVA-site - realizing a new type of civic building as part of the re-development of the Vivaqua drinking water reservoir. The building and its connections across the neighbourhood will alter the scale and center of gravity of Ixelles, providing a new focus poised between the Avenue Louise and Chau. d’Ixelles.

Our proposal strives for a new public realm, a new community - a gathering place for humans and nature. A gesture towards a new urban ecology, accommodating biodiversity and culture, production and everyday life, redefining scales and networks of making.

Re-Imagining CIVA

Europan E16

Status: Competition
Location: Bruxelles (B)
Client: Europan
Design team: Alexander Petrounine, Ignacio Flores
Size: 9980 m2
Program: Transformation and vertical extension
productive garden
[1] View from the productive garden towards the public plaza  


[2] A new urban center for the neighbourhood

[2] Isometric view - neighbourhood scale
[3] Civa in relation to the Vivaqua site
[4] Integrating within the neighbourhood -  [a] Attraction Poles [b] Green Network [c] Mobility
 
[5] Programme Distribution & Vertical Circulation


[6] Public programme within the existing part


[7] Renovation principles - [a] Character & Programme [b] Interventions [c] Circulation


[8] Impression of the Container Lab


[9] Mixed housing programme expressed through the vertical extension


[10] Living principles - [a] Co-Living Concept [b] Exterior Spaces [c] Common Facilities

[11] Housing typologies





[12] Front street elevation


[13] Long section


[14] Cross section


[15] View from the patio above the factory towards the tower