Urban has received a visit.brussels award in the category “Brussels Best Smart Experience” for its exhibition “Stoclet 1911 Restitution”, about the Stoclet House.
This project is the result of extensive scientific work, carried out over several years by Urban’s experts and by ULB’s AlICe laboratory, and it combines fascinating archive documents with a fresh historical analysis and a 3D reconstruction of the Stoclet House’s interiors as they looked between 1911 and 1918.
Presented in an original scenography created by the Traumnovelle architecture agency, the exhibition was first hosted at the Art & History Museum, and later, because it proved so successful, a lighter version was hosted at the Halles Saint-Géry. The exhibition attracted nearly 75,000 visitors!
→ The film can still be seen today at LAB·AN x Hôtel van Eetvelde, in an exhibition space specially dedicated to the project.
Urban has entered the era of digital heritage restoration!
In recent years, a new field of conservation and restoration has been developing: that of virtual “restoration”. Thanks to today’s resources and multi-disciplinary collaboration between experts, architects and developers, it is now increasingly common to see this type of project emerge and virtually bring back to life heritage gems.
With this aim, Urban and ULB worked together for more than two years to recover and restore the Stoclet House to its 1911 original state.
A first exhibition dedicated to the Stoclet House
“Stoclet 1911 Restitution” is the first exhibition that is entirely about the Stoclet House, a masterpiece by architect Josef Hoffmann, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009… while remaining inaccessible to the public.
This exhibition, which is the result of a cooperation between Urban, the ULB Architecture Faculty La Cambre-Horta and the Art & History Museum, has been put together on the occasion of the Brussels Art Nouveau Year 2023 and was presented in the frame of the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2024.
An unprecedented digital reconstruction
(Re)watch the “Autrement” programme broadcast on BX1, with Guy Conde-Reis, who is responsible for Urban’s cultural strategy, to learn more about the virtual reconstruction of heritage gems that have now disappeared or that are inaccessible.
