Print Email Facebook Twitter The Future Bank Title The Future Bank: transformation of the National Bank of Brussels Author Barten, Ron (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor De Vocht, S. (mentor) Klooster, M.W. (mentor) Mandias, S.S. (mentor) Rosbottom, D.J. (graduation committee) Pimlott, Mark (graduation committee) Pietsch, S. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities Date 2022-06-27 Abstract The Future Bank involves the transformation and adaptive reuse of the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels. A vast closed off urban block, designed to safeguard the states treasures hasn’t moved with the ever changing ambiguous role of the bank. The project introduces a new public plinth for the city of Brussels to appropriate together with a conglomerate of different office environments for the banks employees. As architect, taking on the role of bricoleur, the existing building structure has been approached as a source of pre-constrained materials. The metaphorical tools of the axe and pocket knife are used to eke out new meanings within the existing building structure. The misfit building will be healed by stitching together on different scales. In that way creating an architectural continuity which allows future adaptation and even an informality that invites to do so. The minimal interventions aim to heal the existing, minimizing our impact on the limited resources that our planet has to offer. The result is a strategy which must be considered before diminishing a building that misfits its contemporary role. Subject BrusselsOfficeAdaptive ReusePublic InteriorBricolage To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b26bcf1a-848b-4c56-ad08-8f79cadef9ff Coordinates 50.848917, 4.359806 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Ron Barten Files PDF Barten_Ron_4971396_Presentation.pdf 104.25 MB PDF Barten_Ron_4971396_Drawing_Book.pdf 22.26 MB PDF Barten_Ron_4971396_Projec ... ournal.pdf 160.84 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b26bcf1a-848b-4c56-ad08-8f79cadef9ff/datastream/OBJ2/view