Jerusalem / ARJM

Aug 2009

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Health , Housing , ARJM, Belgium

Architect: ARJM (Abdelmajid Boulaioun)
Location: rue de Jerusalem, Chaussée de Haecht, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belguim
Project: 5 logements Social + Cabinet médical
Project Team: Abdelmajid Boulaioun, Jean-Marie Bertin, Michel Cuypers, Emmanuel Toglet, Ryo Inagaki
Structural Engineer: Michael Nguen, Brussels
Client: Renovas ASBL
Contractor: Balcan, Brussels
Project Year: 2009
Photograph: Filip Dujardin

The Crime of the “Dirty Puss” (Sale Geuele – Francis Bacon)

The corner remains marginal, allowing the appearance of another identity. Set back within this corner, it remits us another image of ourselves. Understanding this setting back is the start of an introspection – the emerging architectural project becomes the body of an ambivalence between integration and retraction. To avoid the renunciation, the project integrates the notion of being an eye-catcher. The views and their relationships appear as the foundation of the project. They sculpture the basic volume, transform it, the relationship with its environment beomes sublime.

This strategy of the project is neither the one of affirmation, nor the one of effacement: It is the one of the everyday. We find it back in the volumetric expression of the project, comparable of the portraits of Francis Bacon, a dirty puss that is amusing itself.

A “dirty puss” which amuses itself for its hybrid functions.
A “dirty puss” which affirms itself in a body dispersed from daily life.
A “dirty puss” which exults the space it is occupying.

Section

Plan

Ground floor

19 comments »

pero says:

great project, lov it very much

# August 29, 2009 at 04:32

QFWFQ says:

非常可爱，有个性的小房子。
很喜欢。
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# August 29, 2009 at 05:15

hyper says:

The connection between the write-up and the architectural treatment is very weak. Maybe it could be used for another project.

# August 29, 2009 at 06:54

noName says:

nice project
the comparison with Bacons portraits is questionable, no?
(by the way it’s gueule)

# August 29, 2009 at 06:57

Panudec says:

Beautiful, finally postmodern has been asimilated with no shame in contemporary architects.

# August 29, 2009 at 12:36

Ronen Bekerman says:

Almost paint like! a like this very much.

# August 29, 2009 at 15:25

alfred says:

you´r not very smart are you?

# September 25, 2009 at 06:49

Auf says:

I don’t understand this project…

# August 30, 2009 at 03:23

panudec – yes at last!

# August 30, 2009 at 05:38

majchers says:

Good, solid piece of architekture. Well done, congratulations to the team. I love the result – blend between left and right streetscapes.

# August 31, 2009 at 11:51

PYO says:

This facade remind me Cino Zucchi residential building in la Giudecca, Venice.

http://www.zucchiarchitetti.com/eng/zucchiarchitetti/progetti/edresidenziali/d/scheda02.html

# August 31, 2009 at 12:13

bvel005 says:

it reminds me of a lot of zucchi projects to be honest which is ok … it’s a formula which works. I think it’s a modest project which I respect but I wouldn’t go as far as to say I love it etc. good job though.

# August 31, 2009 at 16:27

novan says:

very nice colour composition and shape on the corner of the street

# September 2, 2009 at 00:28

Roder says:

Lindo

# September 8, 2009 at 10:03

alex says:

if the flat was built in anther site,i mean ,not at the special corner of the city ,will be better than it was now.
so,i could not find the feeling through what you wanna do.maybe you wanna make the flat intergrated with the environment.when the imagation becoming reality ,would be a little further than you can control.
somthing wrong with it,the corlor?the windows shape.and whatever……

# September 26, 2009 at 11:35

Julia says: