Karbon' is a Brussels-based cooperative that has been active since 2008. Today, it brings together 20 architects and urban planners with a common approach and a strong complementarity. Karbon' has numerous projects and studies to its credit, testifying to the firm's ability to tackle territorial, landscape, urban and architectural issues relating to a variety of scales and contexts, as well as to a wide range of ways of thinking and acting.
This knowledge of Brussels' built environment also includes the heritage dimension of architecture, through various restoration and renovation projects for emblematic buildings and social housing complexes, revealing the office's ability to question the qualities and potential of buildings from different periods of the city's construction. At the same time, Karbon' is developing ongoing research into the environmental impact of construction, with a view to developing an integrated architectural approach based on the right choice of materials. The cooperative's practice is resolutely committed to placing social values at the heart of its approach. In fact, Karbon' has long been looking beyond energy consumption figures to consider the environmental impact of the materials used, as well as the consumption and obsolescence of on-board technology. Through a series of hemp-lime concrete projects and the construction of several pilot straw houses, Karbon' has developed the capacity to use bio-sourced, recycled and reused materials with positive health and environmental balances, such as straw, clay, hemp-lime blocks, wood, cork and cellulose.
Legal notice
La société coopérative Karbon’ est soumise à l'autorité de surveillance de l'Ordre des Architectes – Conseil francophone et au règlement de déontologie de 16 décembre 1983 qui peut être consulté en suivant ce lien.
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