Xaveer De Geyter Architects | XDGA
A new media district will be created on the former national television site at the border of the city of Brussels. Nowadays this site is somehow isolated from the rest of the neighbourhood, mainly because of the road infrastructure all around it. The future master plan aims to open up the site and turn it into a multi-functional campus, allowing it to become part of the surrounding city. Continue reading XDGA
The ambition of the project is no less than to establish a central pivot, a public hotspot for both university campuses, providing space for informal meetings as well as for studious concentration. Continue reading XDGA
The competition was organized in order to extend and renovate the existing Museum of Fine Arts in Tournai and to propose a masterplan how to integrate the museum more in its surroundings. Continue reading XDGA
New study for the Ecole polytechnique in XDGA-FAA’s Paris-Saclay masterplan. The project designs a new building within the existing one in order to transform a late modernist autarchic complex into an lively campus center. Continue reading XDGA . FAA
This competition is a real challenge on how to combine the two programs – the Basel City Archive and the Museum for Natural History – in such a way that they interact maximally with the public realm of the surrounding city. The two main restrictions in order to do so are the long, small and irregular shaped building site along a railroad track and the majority of the program that does not allow direct daylight to enter the building. Continue reading Xaveer De Geyter
