Urban renewal project in town center of Charleroi is aiming to revitalize the area and promote social mixity. Social housing building, housing for middle income people and commercial areas.
- renewal of four buildings with 3 or 4 floors above the ground;
- development of an area inside the block participating to inhabitants social life;
- development of 14 apartments;
- availability of 4 commercial areas on the ground floor.
All these buildings are performing up the « low energy » standard.
Building 1 – apartments – K33
Building 2 – apartments – K36
Building 3 – apartments – K34
Building 4 – apartments – K30
Engineering office’s assignments:
Energy: Option is renovating buildings with sound supporting structure, and demolition and reconstruction of the others with a very high energy standard; full energy modeling of the buildings leading to an optimal performance.
HVAC: individual suction and condensing boilers, high efficiency double flow ventilation (D-system recovering more than 85% of the energy), air-tightness control.
Lifts: equipped with frequency invertors and motorization in the sheath.
Sanitary: rainwater recovery for the cleaning of community spaces and watering of vegetal facade inside of the block.
Electricity: lighting of common spaces with high performance including management of the lighting, photovoltaic panels used for the power supply in common spaces.
Owner
Municipal Administration of Charleroi
Architect
Momentary partenship, Autenne – Warin – Romain
Contractor
Lixon
Cost
3,500,000 €
End of works: 2013
Surface
1.317 m²
