Castle of Chevetogne / Atelier Chora / Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures / Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures

Castle of Chevetogne

Programe: Creation of a Center of Interpretation of Child and Youth Litterature into the castle.
(Renovation and reallocation).

About: Our intervention was to transform the castle while keeping and enhancing its identity.

The analysis and the discovery of the castle had to be done step by step, following its approach.

The reflexion is on four main ideas :
- Creating a courtyard in the extension of the parc and giving access to the underground (entrance of the center).
- Putting the elevator outside the building and interpret it like a green tower, light and transparent. A tree we climb in, a module.
- Keeping the offices on the first floor, on a central position, in order to benefit from the light, from large spaces and preserving a quality of working life.
- Divide the interpretation center on the second and third floors. Within the latter, space is organized in mezzanine, footbridges, empty spaces and glass walls allowing large views on the domain.

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