These new social housing units are added to the social housing district built in

1922-1925 by the architect Victor Bourgeois. A plot is located along the

Beheersstraat and has 43 units, and the other site is along the
Dendermondestraat with 32 units. In both plots, four blocks of apartments and
houses of low energy consumption have been built, aligned in a classic way.

The maximum volume and construction heights remind us of the buildings

created by Victor Bourgeois in the Cité Moderne translates to The Modern City

Victor Bourgeois is an avant-garde leader in Belgium of the modernist current,

reflection on architecture and urbanism, the latter benefited from the grand
prize of the decorative arts of Paris in 1925).

The plan of the city consists of a series of short streets and dead ends avoiding
transit traffic, squares and squares imagined by urban planner and landscape
designer Louis Van der Swaelmen. This urban development makes it possible to
improve the conviviality and the solidarity between the inhabitants as well as
their security. The names attributed to the streets and squares underline these
intentions: Street of the Foundation, the Management, the Evolution, the
Welcome, the Mutual Aid or the Ébats, place of the Initiative or the Cooperators.