Listen, Understand, Create, Innovate, Surprise.

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Architects: Frederic Haesevoets Architecte

Location: Herstal, Belgium

Architect In Charge: Frederic Haesevoets

Area: 12500.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Christophe Vootz

Consultants: Batiserf, BELemaire, MKengineering, LIA, Louis Benech

Construction Company: Association momentanée Galere ? Moury

Client: Ville de Herstal

Listen, Understand, Create, Innovate, Surprise.This approach develops through a generous act, mixing modernity and organic. It is about creating a new way of discovering, moving, getting your bearings, and working.
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Creating sensuality.Adopting this approach we have developed this project for the building of the Herstal City Hall. Our objective: to create it in a surprising and innovative way. 

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The setting up of the building is divided into 2 parts. This allows creating a largely open pedestrian area which lets us discover an inside made of patches of vegetation conceived as a public garden.

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The choice of tree species and other vegetables has been made according to their flowering, persistence, pigmentation and their smell...