• museum
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The museum is housed in the early 20th-century George Eastman building located in the middle of Leopold Park, Brussels. The extension is accommodated in the existing courtyard and crowns the building, reinforcing the principle of composition based on the pre-eminence of the central body and axial symmetry. Composing a coherent whole, the new form completes the old in an almost familiar, expected way. Opaque prisms, which seem to be floating, can be seen through the glass envelope. This dynamic asymmetry stands in contrast to the orderly geometry of the existing Eastman building. By its strong identity and high quality, this new museum takes its place among the institutions in the European district as a new stop in the city’s cultural circuit.

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Program

Museum design including layout for permanent and temporary exhibitions, media centre, cafeteria, shop, administration, education centre (class room, 100 seat conference room)

Client

European Parliament

Project team

Chaix & Morel et Associés, Paris
JSWD Architekten, Cologne, Germany
Paris team : Philippe Chaix, Jean-Paul Morel, Walter Grasmug,
with Jan Horst, Aurélie de Seze,
and Antoine Button, Aimie Calvet, Fabian Christ, Dana Hoffmann, Misha Kramer, Tobias Lehre, Eva Di Marco, Bogna Przybylska Ribeiro, Cécile Rivière, Patricia Salvador, Maximilian Wetzig

TPF Engineering, engineering
Werner Sobek, facades
Francis Crombez Développement, surveying
BL Associés, mseum design consultants
Tribu, sustainable development
SPRL Venac, acoustics
SOCOTEC Belgium, security consultants

Key figures

Surface area : 11 605 m² BGF (DIN standard) = 9 970 m2 SHON
Construction costs excl. VAT : 25 M €
Competition 2011 - work in progress - estimated completion April 2014

Environmental specifications

Environmental quality approach applied aiming for BREEAM certification

Photography credits

Didier Boy de la Tour, Christian Richters, Christian Fabris

Linked video

https://vimeo.com/298997432

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