Destrier
DESTRIER / Big and together
Large in terms of the number of units, Together through the creation of a series of community spaces.
The Destrier project is part of an ambitious approach to urban transformation, combining housing, community facilities and landscaping. It aims to recreate a link between one of Brussels' main roads and a changing, heterogeneous neighborhood, next to a garden city, by fostering the emergence of a new local centrality.
Housing for all
130 low- and medium-income housing units, designed to offer a diversity of uses and living styles, integrated into a neighborhood-scale complex.
The housing is organized into 13 independent, semi-detached buildings to facilitate links between residents.
Around fifty different types of apartments (duplexes with private gardens, through-view apartments with loggias, 1 or 2-bedroom simplexes adapted for disabled people, etc.) promote a social and generational mix.
Spaces for meeting and sharing
- The “Maison Destrier” community hall, the heart of the project, designed as a modular space opened to the neighborhood.
- A public passageway and social areas, connecting the garden city and the Chaussée de Louvain via safe pedestrian and cycling paths.
- Five gardens and a collective kitchen garden, supporting local initiatives in urban agriculture and biodiversity.
A structuring project for public space
- The redevelopment of avenue du Destrier into a shared space, integrating soft mobility and limiting the impact of cars.
- A public passageway, a new link for pedestrians and cyclists, new porosity through the urban fabric.
- A preserved and enriched plant network, promoting a calmer, more resilient living environment.
- Multiple housing
- Year of conception
- 2016
- Year of production
- 2024
- Architecte
- Pierre Blondel Architectes
- Maîtrise d'ouvrage
- S.L.R.B.
Avenue du Destrier 3-7
1140 Evere
Belgium
Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles Inventaires #5 2023-2026