These projects by Nord are modest: the design of three lofts for three couples in the municipality of Anderlecht in Brussels. Nord presents these lofts as autonomous entities, not tied to a building, let alone a context. The architecture is, in the first place, an intervention in the interior of the unit. In each of these lofts, this intervention is of a similar yet different nature.

A single element is introduced to divide up the space and ready it for use: a beam that groups together wet rooms and facilities, intersecting walls with a revolving door, a bathroom on a platform. This intervention produces the same programme each time: kitchen-diner, sitting area, two bedrooms and a bathroom. This standard configuration doesn’t seem to have been imposed on the given plan, however. It appears as a result of the interaction between plan and intervention. That interaction seems moreover to be inspired by other than purely practical considerations. Which ones?