The Breakfast Series, 2020 – 2026

KBR and Mont des Arts in the Softroom. Sébastien introduce the softroom and its possible uses. Dieter then present the different trajectories proposed for the Mont des Arts masterplan, before we finish with the proposal for KBR, located on the same site.

Making Sace for Diversity: Dieter, Eva, Una, Elke in conversation with the cultural anthropologist Ruth Soenen

Teachers of 51N4E with Eva, Bas, Freek, Olga, Dieter

Here comes the second part of the P202 trajectory consultation story. This time with a different focus on Remuneration & Roles, rather on how we grow in the office as announced in the presentation of last week.

Quartiers de Demain with Aya, Freek and Gianni

Care and roles: How we work together? with Aline, Elke and Dieter

Negociating Infrastructure, presentation of the Chapter IV with Seppe, Freek, Aline and Ruben

HMONP How to Define a Posture with Maël, Baptiste and Victor

Looking back Alter for Stage with Emma, Yann, Robin and Maël

During this Breakfast, Mathieu and Eline explored Opening Ground through the CERIA project.

Kievit with Bas and Jonathan

Albanian Files with Matteo F., Matteo N., Michele, Ajmona, Hunter and Victor

Everyday Maintenance with Mael and Manus

Data Strategy with Sotiria, Marta

RECAST with Willem and Olivier

Interaction Trajectories with Pauline, Alessandro, Emma and Sepideh

Office Space Processes with Alessandro and Emma

How are we Insured here at 51N4E? with Anne-Sophie Weemans “CEA” and “Protect”

Ringpark Zuid Market with Sotiria, Mickaël, Matija, Vittorio, Lara, Maria V.

A presentation of Peterbos 9 and 17-18 by Ruben and Olga.

Recypark: Recycling a Wooden Structure by Yann Gueguen with Greisch

Track talk with Harold and Serafina

CNTR with David, Frederic, Mara, Pieter-Jan, Willem

A presentation on how we will approach the move to the +2 and the use of our new workspace in the first few months, given by Harold Vermeiren.

A presentation about an integrating exercise: Basel Ost. The project tried to develop a strategy and mode of working that played with the multiple identities of the office. With Seppe De Blust, Chloé Nachtergael and Matija Kraljic.

This Breakfast meeting hosted by the Resources team will delve into our office’s knowledge exchange methods, focusing on the structure and workflows of Resources. Janik Beckers and Petar Petricevic will talk about the substantial work that they have been doing these past years on the Collection, the benefits of a switch from a local server to a cloud, and in general how the Resources can be used by us all in the best way possible.

A Breakfast Series about the ecosystem of projects that are fostered by C-mine.

C-mine Masterplan, C-mine Atelier, C-mine Ontwerpkamer, the various iterations of the past years deserve some explanation. Dive with Dieter Leyssen, Ruben Janssen, Maud Maes, Wim Menten and Emma Bourguignon in the captivating world of a now-cultural hub, then-mining site, mixing actual cultural questions with historical ecological ones.

Insights into collective housing: from realisations by 51N4E, explained by Wim Menten to Seppe de Blust’s Antwerp collective housing project.

The opening of the former train museum is coming closer and so Astrid, Dieter, Serafina and Sébastien give an update on the renovation works of the past months, our co-users, the new name and other futur plans for our new space.

The 51N4E beehive in Albania is buzzing and Matteo talks about the nowadays role of 51N4E in Albania, showing some ongoing or less known projects as well as failed projects.

Together with Johanna, Mickaël, Stefano, Marie and Wim, Jitse explains the complex trajectory and the various subprojects of ‘Noord Zuid Limburg’, a high-performance public transport corridor in Limburg.

Territories in transition is a red thread among some of the project Acte has been busy with, explained by Arya Arabshahi and Aya Akbib.

The first part of the masterplan design for the Center of Kortrijk, explained by Aya Akbib, Sander Wallays and Dieter Leyssen. How a series of experiments, green play and meeting spots can activate and make the shopping street and the center more attractive.

The second part of the Super Terram story, almost in a workshop form. The presentation is missing, we only see the speakers and the hear the questions around in this one.

Benoit Lanon and Maël Duclovel explain the competition design for Brigade Forestière, a project that not only looks for a comfortable workplace for the foresters of the Sonian Forest but also questions material reuse and circularity.

Test planning Campo is the first phase of the competition around the Stefanini Collection. Seppe De Blust and Nemanja Zimonjic explain how 51N4E and TEN along with two other teams defined and refined the brief in this first phase.

From rural allotment to ‘community-garden-distric’. Wim Menten presents the won Open Call competition of the Flemish Bouwmeester for the social housing materplan in the Groothuiswijk of Verrebroek, Belgium.

Olivier Cavens will take you through some of the recent feasibility studies 51N4E has conducted on the possible reuse of old office buildings.

From sketch design to final design, to building permit. Mateo Frangi and Gianni Villa guide us through the intense past two years of the WTC IV project.

Benoit Lanon and Ludovica De Gaudenzi present the competition Entre Deux Ponts that they worked on at the end of 2021. The project concerns the Gray street and its junction to the Couronne Avenue with the surrounding buildings and challenges that it represents to transform it into a public space.

Arya Arabshahi presents the project Luxemburg in Transition. A study on the decarbonisation of Luxembourg.

Wim Menten and Sebastien Roy explain the main advantages of building with wood, recounting data and notions gathered by partner wood shapers in their series of lectures for the Wood Academy, as well as by showing some examples of wooden architecture that Cast is currently carrying out.

An update from Programme Transformative Densification: Yann Gueguen and Laura Villeret present and compare two housing projects, where the corner morphology determines the faces and contextual characters of the building itself.

In two moments we looked collectively at the ambitions and planning for the year 2021. Besides for this video documentation of the discussions, you can see more closely the document and add comments on the Year Plan Miro board, by clicking here.

Francesco Garutti and Irene Chin introduce Rural Urban Framework and 51N4E ‘The Things Around Us’ and show the video artwork commissioned for the exhibition. You can stream the video from CCA channel, by clicking here.

Jeroen Deseyn shows the work of Plant & Houtgoed and its collaboration within studio Root

Janik Beckers and Eva De Bruyn go through the evolution of the ICC project in Ghent

Konstantinos Pantazis and Marianna Rentzou present their Athens based practice Point Supreme

Arya Arabshahi presents the versatile approach in the research study for the decarbonisation of Luxembourg.

Guust Selhorst and Ajmona Hoxha present their work in the framework of iRI in Tirana.

Matteo Frangi brings us to Tirana to describe the on-going project for the Book Building. See the project here.

Freek Persyn talks about Design in Dialogue, an attitude investigated in the second ‘Chapter’ publication, in collaboration with Endeavour and Denkstatt.

On this session, Harold Vermeiren and Kevin Westerweld explained the vision and process envisioned for the future of the ring road in Antwerp. See the project here.