This research project develops through a continuous back-and-forth between reading and transformation — where analysis and design operate as a single process rather than sequential stages.
The site of the SIAMU fire station in Brussels' North Quarter does not yield to immediate reading. A robust concrete infrastructure still in use, a heavily artificialized ground, layered histories of construction and erasure — its complexity resists straightforward description. The project engages it as an active investigation, where each spatial gesture tests a partial reading and sharpens understanding of what the site holds, what it resists, and what it leaves open.
The question is not what to build, but what the existing structure already makes possible — and how to intervene without closing off what remains in suspension.