Royale-Brialmont

This project was created in 2004 as an office and residential structure. Simple repetitive structural grids and uncluttered ceilings (allowing an easily partitioned modular space) are meant to highlight the panorama the site offers, as do the terraces. Transparency and criss-crossing views from the ground level up to the skyline, and indifferently for the apartments and offices, have been favoured in order to knit the ensemble into its site: all street entrances (pedestrian or vehicular) offer views onto the inner courtyards…insides extend outwards through the use of cantilevered porches, see- through reception areas, exterior gangways and staircases.