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Building with less, achieving more: archipelago at Pixii Expert Day

Building with less, achieving more: archipelago at Pixii Expert Day

Joost Declercq

Archipelago was the proud curator of the Pixii Expert Day on “Sufficiency: from policy vision to building practice”. During this inspiring day, our colleague Joost Declercq and Jennifer Timmermans from Brussels Environment shared their pioneering vision on sufficient building. Through concrete experiences and powerful real-life cases, they showed how sufficiency can become a strong design strategy, and how the latest version of the GRO tool can have an impact.

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