Jewish Museum of Belgium / adn architectures & Archiscénographie & Atelier d'Architecture Matador / Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures

Jewish Museum of Belgium

Programe: 1. Keep the monumental façade as it stands (not listed as a classified monument]) and the current calibre.
2. Register the presence of the building-museum within its urban environment, connected with both the Sablon and the Palace of Justice.
3. Create a multipurpose room in the patio.
4. Acknowledge the museum project established by the scientific team to allow the general public to discover Jewish heritage based on different themes.
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About: The project links the two entities (Minimes and Samaritaine) while maintaining a courtyard through a hollowed area (multipurpose space) naturally lit by its edges.
It opens on the cityscape as a breath between the two and a reminder of the location of the museum in its Brussels context.
The volume is cut through from side to side (from the ground floor's sky to the roof's sky) by six beams called "idioblogs" (decomposition / recomposition of the Star of David), which act as light conduits, as articulators of space and visual sequences. These beams pass each other by, cross one another, over and under, welcome inquisitive eyes, instill the (real) vertigo of (potential) curiosity.
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