Loi 130
Loi 130 is a proposal for the redevelopment of the EU premises at Rue de la Loi 130 in Brussels, for the invited international competition issued by the European Union in 2018. With a total area of 190,000 m², the inner city complex includes office towers, two childcare centres, a visitor centre, restaurants, shops, public spaces with green areas, and a new entrance to Maelbeek metro station, all with the highest possible level of security. The projects aims to bring two rightly-scaled public spaces, a square, and a garden to the segregated urban scenario of the European Quarter.
The built complex is designed around these two entities and is physically rooted in its environment: aligned, and merged within the Brussels urban fabric. The design motif is simply the creation of space in different declinations. Boxes are sunk underground to create a public space on the plaza. Patios are carved in the built volume to allow natural daylight to penetrate. Shafts pushed to the facades of the towers enable bright flexible floorplans and expose the sustainable functioning principles of the building. According to these principles, the project works as a bright, flexible, efficient machine and challenges the common definition of outdoor spaces, hybrid buildings, and high-rises.
Info
- Location
- Brussels, BE
- Date
- 2019
- Size
- 180,050 sqm
- Client
- European Comission
- Team
- Adam Kelly, Alessandro Arcangeli, Alice Colombo, Claudio Zampaglione., Daniele Dalbosco, Dikkie Scipio, Hana Mohar, Jana Culek, Kees Kaan, Narcisa Ionita, Sebastian van Damme, Vincent Panhuysen
- Photography
- Visualization by Filippo Bolognese
