terdelt_txt — vvv architecture urbanisme

The Terdelt neighborhood, located on a former agricultural plateau, was organized around the Schaerbeek cemetery until the 1970s. Albert Park, which resulted from the dismantling of the cemetery, now stands at the crossroads of this neighborhood. An enclave that has become a thoroughfare, whose only remains are the row of trees and embankments that run along the sports center to the west, extended by the ring of vegetation around the sports center and to the south in the park. The future pavilion of the parks department will be located at the intersection between the park and the sports center, between the park and the city. It runs along the north-south axis, the sports avenue, which already organizes and distributes the various facilities and buildings of the sports center. The project therefore proposes an additional pavilion to this existing collection. It reinforces the various elements of the site by opening up generously onto the avenue and establishing a dialogue with the existing pavilions.

The unitary roof expresses a unitary and modest intervention. It faces the avenue, and the roof overhang provides an interface between the building and the open space, a generous space for workers, walkers, and athletes. The building's approach is to present the workspaces at the forefront, on the façade, and to turn them into a “high-performance machine” that tends towards autonomy and allows for an educational role for neighboring schools. The workspace therefore faces the avenue via large sliding doors. From this unheated space, the technical and “dirty” functions are organized in an elongated volume on two floors, with the collective and office spaces upstairs. In this way, a clean interior world for the workers unfolds, visually connecting the workspace, offices, and cafeteria, away from the other activities of the busy sports site. The heated parts of the program thus benefit from a cross-cutting quality, between the view of the wooded ridge and the covered workshop and garage space.