For the headquarters of the European Stability Mechanism, the burden of security paranoia was turned into a landscape capacity: safety distances and obstacles thus become a forest in which various pavilions host the offices of several administrations.

Instead of fencing the urban bloc, a porous campus enables and promotes crossing, lingering and gathering.

The buildings’ footprints and alignments deliberately differentiate from the neighboring developments to produce an array of piazzas and squares, of pockets of landscape and urban space.

The headquarters of a European institution aiming at integrating and representing the values of the socio-political idea.

In collaboration with KAAN (nl), OKRA (nl), Werner Sobek (de), Schroeder & Associés (lu)