City Hall Brussels

City Hall Brussels: A Public House

van Roessel, Roos (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

De Vocht, S. (mentor)
Parravicini, M. (graduation committee)
Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor)
Pimlott, M. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

City hall

2020-07-06

A new administrative building is planned for the city of Brussels, one of 19 municipalities that together form the Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. The administrative centre will provide city offices for 1600 employees and a public space for the receipt and processing of applications from citizens. The winning competition project, known as Brucity, lacks any description of a truly public space and doesn’t engage with the citizens of Brussels on a political level. It is appearing as an anonymous office building, showing that the municipality has reduced themselves to their mere administrative task. This project is intended to be a critique on the competition project. The main objective is to design a building that allows for more direct contact and collaboration between the municipality and its citizens.

City hall

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Student theses

master thesis

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