According to the motto Urban Green Living which guides this competition, this project entitled Hof offers a tribute to the rural past of the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert based on chromaticism, forms and materials of the vernacular architecture of Brussels. Outside, a steel structure based on the geometry of old gable-shaped houses and farms built in timber framing. Inside, a cylindrical trellis made of reused Brusselse Klampsteen bricks. The result is a sculptural ensemble permeable to the eye, the play of lights, shadows, materials and forms that will make the memory and identity of the town still present.

Olafur Eliasson est né en 1967 à Copenhague. L’artiste a grandi au Danemark et en Islande et vit aujourd’hui entre Berlin et Copenhague. Il a déjà participé à différentes expositions au Astrup Fearnley Museum d’Oslo, au Tate Modern de Londres, à la biennale de Venise, au Museum of Modern Art de New-York.

Son activité artistique est particulièrement centrée sur les phénomènes naturels physiques tels que l’eau, la lumière et le mouvement.