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Passivhaus Seminar 2018
On November 19th and 20th the Passivhaus Seminar was held in 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. This city is recognized for being a pioneer in the use of the Passivhaus standard, a passive construction and energy saving methodology. The students of the Master of Architecture and Sustainability had the opportunity to visit buildings in different stages of construction, from buildings on site, to facilities in use.
On the first day, in the morning, the students attended a conference on concepts and materials applied mainly in the Passivhaus buildings, in the CIVA Foundation, in charge of Architect Jeroen Poppe. In the afternoon, we visited the Woluwe MT200 building, a residential building recently finished and actually in use, accompanied by the Architect Marieke Landron and the Hotel BARA, which is in the construction stage, accompanied by the Architect Laura Rooth, both from the A2M office.
On the second day of the tour, the first building in the morning, was the Greenbizz building accompanied by the architect Sabine Leribaux, from the Architectes Assoc firm; it is a model building of business incubators, which allowed the development of the urban area. Then, we went to the construction of the expansion of an elementary and kínder garden in Waterloo, accompanied by the Architect Delphine Derbaudrenghien of Trait Architects.In the afternoon, two buildings of the R2D2 office was visited, guided by Arch. Pieter De Groeve. The students attended the Piers – Schmitz housing building and the children’s nursery, Hectolitre, both already in use.
It is worth highlighting, not only the good predisposition of the students in all the visits, but the importance of all the concepts exposed by the professionals who guided and accompanied us during the Tour. That is why from the staff of the Master Architecture and Sustainability we want to thank you all.
