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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Remodelling Florair Housing in Brussels, Belgium by ATELIER KEMPE THILLSeptember 6th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ATELIER KEMPE THILL Atelier Kempe Thill has recently won the European tender for the transformation of two apartment blocks in the Brussels district of Jette. In the closed competition five teams were involved. The two apartment blocks are located in a hilly park – alike setting in a green urban part of the Brussels agglomeration next to sports facilities.  Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL
 Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL The existing buildings are well designed examples of the modernism of the fifties with generous, well composed façades of prefab – concrete in combination with elegant steel windows. These qualities the client wants to keep despite the strong impact the renovation will have with a thermal insulation according to contemporary standards.  Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL  Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL The concept takes a re – interpretation of the existing architecture as a starting point. For that reason the façade will be entirely wrapped with insulation and covered again with a new layer of prefabricated concrete elements in combination with new windows with large glass panes and strongly articulated frames to find a new architectural reading of the buildings. Thickness, colour and alignment of the concrete vary to find a reinterpretation of the decorative works on the original façade. Paradoxically, to reach again elegance the façade is thus oversimplified and coarsened. To save this architecture, it in fact has to be destroyed and recreated.  Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL  Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL  Image Courtesy © ATELIER KEMPE THILL
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