Tous Ensemble

The project combines the renovation of an existing villa with the construction of a residence and day center for people with multiple disabilities. In a context marked by a shortage of dedicated housing in Brussels and Belgium, it rethinks care spaces as inclusive environments, fully embedded in everyday life.The design aims for a house for all: accessible, inclusive, and offering privacy when needed. The site is conceived as a small habitat with varied ways of nesting, moving from garden to wooded area to create graduated forms of shelter. A sequence of spaces sets different degrees of intimacy and together shapes a collection of living environments where openness is defined by the quiet sense of refuge and benevolence it supports.Located in Uccle, 7 km from the city center, the site slopes from south to north and is characterised by a dense and varied vegetation. Positioned at the centre of a 600-metre-long block, the project introduces a discreet pedestrian path that initiates a transversal crossing through the block. This passage both shortens routes at the neighbourhood scale and creates a condition where encounters can occur naturally between the inhabitants of Tous Ensemble and the neighborhood. The project’s first phase: the Residence and the passage through the Villas, sets the foundations of a larger masterplan still unfolding: the renovation of the existing Villa, the entrance Pavilion, and the greenhouse on Av. des Chalets. Each of these future steps will extend the system already in place, allowing the site to mature as a set of interconnected environments.

The ambition is to offer a series of living conditions that respond to the diversity of personalities and abilities of the residents. Instead of prescribing a single way of living, the project proposes a range of atmospheres, from the most intimate to the most open, from sheltered rooms to shared gardens and a discreet link to the surrounding neighbourhood. These gradations invite each person to find their own pace, their own relation to others, and their own comfort within the whole.

This phased approach acknowledges that care is not static. It evolves with people, organisations, and the physical site itself. Architecture and landscape do not arrive at the same time; they overlap, adapt, and slowly intertwine. As people move in, they test the spaces, occupy them, and subtly redefine them.

The project prioritises continuity and transformation over completion, supporting long-term inhabitation as a collective and evolving condition.