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AgwA . AJDVIV

CHAPEX | Palais des Expositions, Congrès and Concerts . Charleroi

AgwA . AJDVIV architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck

In Charleroi, a formerly prominent industrial city on the southern side of Belgium, stands a large Exhibition Hall. This exceptionally sizable building of 60 000 m² is left largely underused due to the difficulty of appropriating such broad volumes in a shrinking industrial context. Nowadays, a city of the scale of Charleroi can make use of at most 25.000 m² of exhibition halls, about a third of the available space. Continue reading AgwA . AJDVIV

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AgwA . AJDVIV

BNP . Bruxelles

AgwA . architecten jan de vylder inge vinck

The design of the project presented in the BNP competition is influenced by three ambitions.

First, investigate the nature of the massive brutalist building of the former CGER by Erauw Lievens Douglas (AB), the elegant housing typologies by Wybauw, De Doncker and Samyn (F), both listed in the heritage inventory of the Brussels Region, and the strangely remote Rothschild building in the back of these two structures. Continue reading AgwA . AJDVIV

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ECAM Youth Center . SAINT-GILLES

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Involving a multitude of associations and organizations, the ECAM project demonstrates the relevance of developing an appropriation structure that allows different uses of the same site by different actors. These include, among others, the youth, early childhood, and sports city services, the buitenling extracurricular association, a scholastic library, and a youth center. Continue reading AgwA