ALTSTADT — The Giant's Shoulders

Works until 2025

ALTSTADT office for architecture, Lisa De Visscher • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  ALTSTADT is an architectural practice based in Brussels, directed by Jan de Moffarts and Steven Bosmans. Positioned at the intersection of design, research, and critical practice, the studio engages with the restoration, reactivation, and redefinition of the built environment through a precise and methodical approach.
  
  Heritage, understood not as static artefact, but as a living manifestation of collective memory and shared space, constitutes both a point of departure and a field of inquiry. Yet the work is never bound by typology or historical determinism. At the heart of ALTSTADT’s practice lies an ambition to produce spatial interventions that are simultaneously radical and restrained, rigorous yet open, defined by conceptual clarity and architectural exactitude.
  
  The studio works across scales and typologies, from the urban fragment to the domestic interior, in Brussels and beyond. Collaborations with other architectural practices and academic institutions form an essential part of this evolving network of activities, with ALTSTADT alternating between the roles of designer, researcher, and advisor.
  
  This publication presents an anthology of projects and studies from the studio’s first five years, including formative works that laid the foundations for the partnership. It opens with a conversation between the two founders, reflecting on the themes and questions that continue to inform their practice.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 170mm x 240mm
  Aantal pagina's : 362
  Uitgeverij : ALTSTADT office for architecture
  ISBN : 9789465331904
  Datum publicatie : 11-2025
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  Standing on the shoulders of giants
  a conversation with Lisa De Visscher
  
  Heritage as public space
  19 Sint-Andries
  29 Munt
  37 Bouchout Castle
  49 Citadel Diest
  57 Gare Maritime
  
  Building on Solid Ground
  85 Vynckier
  97 Floralies
  101 Kanal Centre Pompidou
  107 ATlier
  115 Trèves-Belliard
  123 Science 11
  
  Educational Architecture
  129 A thousand plateaus
  139 Plateaux sur cour
  
  The Church in the Middle
  149 L’église performante
  157 Sint-Martinus Church
  163 Burcht church
  171 Maison du peuple
  173 Movy Club
  175 Petite Senne
  
  Urban Acupuncture
  195 Hanging Garden
  201 Park access
  207 Jardin de la Cigogne
  
  Forms of Living
  213 Waterfordstraat
  223 Rectory & Pavilion
  231 Château de Falaën
  241 Cabanon de Florenville
  245 Hôtel de famille
  253 Belvedere
  261 ‘t Schip
  267 The painters house
  275 City refuge
  281 Escherhuis
  283 Garden House
  285 Hill House
  287 Maison cascade
  
  Among Others
  307 Waterloo 115
  313 Beaulieu
  319 Co-house Bockstael
  325 Castle of Béemont
  331 Palmerston
  335 Louiza
  341 Hangar Siccard
  343 Project list
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