Werfstraat

The passive house gives high-quality urban living a place in a dirty corner of Brussels’ city center. On a very shallow plot between high apartment buildings, the house offers a quality living solution.The building typology is something between a building with an industrial character and a civilian residence, both building types characteristic to the neighborhood.
The window distribution is very regular and ordered, similar to industrial architecture. The bay window marks the entrance and hierarchizes the façade composition. In this way it forms a reference to the characteristic architecture from the environment, without being historicizing.
The main component of the building is red-brown brick, cross-masonry in an alternation of colorless glazed and non-glazed bricks. The brick shell folds around the corners on the nines and sides of window openings and of the bay window. Lintels and sills are made of pigmented and polished concrete that matches the brickwork in terms of color.