An architect’s own home is often a wonderful playground. In this unexpected arena for experimentation, new convictions can emerge, which will ultimately shape their practice: this is the path taken by AgwA with the conversion of a warehouse into a home on Rue Verbiest.

Originally, there was an isolated warehouse in the middle of the open plain that was Molenbeek. A solid structure, in the midst of emptiness. The status of this barn changed when a housing block enclosed it in the 1950s: today it is an empty shell, at the heart of the full.