GOOSSENSSTRAAT SCHAARBEEK
The project is situated on a small site with 3 blank walls, at the back of an old movie theater, part of music center Novanois in Schaarbeek. The building includes 3 apartments: 2 apartments with one bedroom and 1 duplex apartment with 3 bedrooms and a roof terrace. The ground floor, with a ceiling height of 4m and a service entrance to the old cinema complex behind, is primarily open and transparent except for a colored box. This box contains the common entrance to the apartments, a bike parking and storage spaces. The vertical circulation uses an open steel staircase that also acts as a skylight. A fence across the width of the plot forms a continuous whole along the street and delineates the division between public and private space. The entrance to the apartments and the passageway to the property of the theater are completely separated by a steel fence. The facades are made of white panels that correspond to the color of the existing facades. The colored fins serve as an accent in the street and visualize the multicultural users and people of the neighborhood.