Architects:Stéphane Beel Architects

Area :27125 m²

Year :2018

Photographs :Luca Beel

Manufacturers :  AutoDesk, Jansen, AGC, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Architon, Assa Abloy, Concreet-Granito, Guthrie Douglas, KORODUR, Kone, ODS, POTTEAU LABO, ZNRAutoDesk

Lead Architects :Stéphane Beel, Maarten Baeye

Landscape :Michel Desvigne Paysagiste

Services Engineering :RCR Studiebureau

Design Team : Stéphane Beel Architects

Clients : Belgian Buildings Agency

Restoration : Origin architecture & engineering

Structural Engineering : Arup

Building Physics & Acoustics : Daidalos Peutz

Processmanagement : Bureau Bouwtechniek

Collaborators : Maarten Baeye, Alexander Vanysacker, Johnny Umans, Pieter Vandeputte, Simon De Waepenaere, Joris Gyssaert

New Building Area : 7125.0 m²

Restauration Area : 9000.0 m²

Renovation Area : 11000.0 m²

Building Physics : Daidalos Peutz

Acoustics : Daidalos Peutz

City : Tervuren

Country : Belgium

In 2006, the Belgian Buildings Agency launched a competition for the redevelopment of the site of the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren. The multi-disciplinary team headed by Stéphane Beel Architects, laid out the new masterplan for the AfricaMuseum and its surrounding area.

In a first phase of the execution of the masterplan, the existing museum building was restored and extended in 2017. Besides a reorganization of the museum spaces, the children’s workshops, the logistical and secondary spaces, new exhibition rooms have also been provided. To these were added: a restaurant-brasserie, the reception, new children’s workshops, a museum shop, an auditorium and meeting rooms. This reorganization and the extension of the museum building were conceived in such a way that the direct environment of the museum building was preserved as much as possible and was once more connected to the French garden.