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ONLINE BRUSSELS HERITAGE - ONE-DAY SEMINAR - 11/12/2014

A FEW FIGURES

During the study we estimated the costs for works at EUR 1,250 m2 (gross surface area excluding VAT). At the time of the procurement the price came in at approximately EUR 1,000/m2, and the final price including all additional works was EUR 1,100/m2. The largest portion went on the façade (35% of the total cost price), while the technical costs amounted to just 20% of the total cost price. These figures are not yet definitive as delivery is not until January (2015).

CONCLUSION

The character of the renovation interventions is largely determined by the manner and strictness in which heritage is viewed. An important question in this regard is what takes priority: the original concept; the original material; or both? In this project, we primarily prioritised the original concept and then “irreparably improved it”, as the Dutch architect Maarten Fritz puts it; an apparent paradox that is arguably most applicable to this type of building.

Translated from Dutch.



82 | Ieder Zijn Huis: the renovation of a modernist social housing tower block