2011 Christophe HalleuxChristophe Halleux & Nicolas Wulleput - ARCHITECTURE and DESIGN in BAVIERE
The first step of the project was to modify the existing masterplan designed for the site, trying to improve it in integrating public facilities and spaces, and reconnecting it to the rest of the area, especially to the embankment of the Meuse. The most important work was to requalify the north point of the triangle of Bavière which is situated near of one of the main entrances of the city. This north part is then characterized by a new tower that ends the main building which has been completely developed.

This building hosts the main part of the new faculty of architecture, a design center, offers about fifty-five flats and a restaurant in the top of the tower. This new building contains the old building of stomatology. It is now getting ruined but it had been a place of courses for students of Liège for years. So it has been decided to keep it and make it become the heart of the faculty of architecture. Except for the residential part and the restaurant, the entire building consists in a big place of work for students and for professional designers who can walk through the different workshops, discuss in the meeting rooms, study in the library or take a look at the work of other people in the exposition areas.

The residential part of the tower consists in twelve levels of flats but also in two levels high free rooms situated at different corners of the tower where the inhabitants can meet and take a look at city they live in.

The restaurant and the terrace on the top of the tower become then one of the highest places of Liège and offer people a new point of view on the skyline of the city.

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