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The Dutch-speaking and French-speaking Conservatorium of Brussels shares a valuable set of listed historic buildings. This patrimony will be restored and adapted to contemporary comfort. In addition, a new building with master classes, a chamber music hall and rehearsal hall and an underground storage area will be built.
The Brussels Conservatory was built at the end of the 19th century to a design by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar. The building has retained its original function as an educational infrastructure to this day. The monumental concert hall has excellent acoustics, an original organ and natural zenithal light.
The entire ensemble, concert halls, foyer and the historical director’s and secretary’s house are being restored.
The design of the new building focuses on a strong connection between the various building parts – old and new – on Regentschapsstraat and Wolstraat.
Six inner gardens bring structure to the site and natural daylight deep into the buildings. The axis of symmetry of the Cluysenaars building is continued in the gardens and with a vertical axis in the height.
A new large staircase with overhead lighting connects the classrooms of the old and new building and carries the new logical routing.
The whole is transformed into a high-performance, sustainable educational infrastructure that is also accessible to the public.
The project includes a number of major structural and logistical challenges. For example, the new building requires excavation to a depth of 14.5 m and shoring along the existing monuments. This is made possible by manually shoring up trenches that close the pit with an initial depth of up to 18 m.
The various halls and classrooms will be acoustically decoupled from the surrounding structures, and the structural grid will be completely rotated on the ground floor level to make more room for the compactus rooms.
In the renovation sections, the existing wooden floors will be strengthened to cope with increased loads, and new circulations will be provided for accessibility purposes.
The roof of the large concert hall will be heavily reinforced to allow for a higher acoustic roof package and thus better shield the hall from ambient noise. The existing wooden trusses will be reinforced, and a number of new steel trusses will be added.
Rue de la Regence 30 B 1000 BRUXELLES
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