saved.archi

your architecture companion

Work

Alma metro station

Alma is a Brussels Metro station on the eastern branch of line 1. It is located in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, in the eastern part of Brussels, Belgium, serving the Brussels-Woluwe campus of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). Designed by Lucien Kroll as a total artwork, it takes its name from its location on the Place de l'Alma/Almaplein, the university campus' main square.

building

built

Unknown

Woluwe-Saint-Lambert - Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert - Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Belgium

Education building

educationcampus buildingEducation building
Compare this workMore works hereMap nearby worksView city pageView region pageView country pageOpen source record

Gallery

Hero image, caption, credit, source, and license are attached to the work record.

1

Architects

1

Bureaus

0

Books

Phase 1 site intelligence

Runtime context from mapping, climate, transit, and access providers

Loading

Gathering site context

Pulling place, climate, and nearby mobility signals for this work.

Phase 2 heritage and risk

Source review, archive context, seismic, federal, coastal, and soil signals around the work

Loading

Gathering heritage and hazard context

Pulling project-source review, archive traces, seismic history, federal context, and soil classification.

Phase 3 materials and carbon

Material palette, carbon research, and classification scaffolding around the work

Loading

Building the material and carbon layer

Normalizing the palette, checking public classification systems, and preparing product-level research handoffs.

Architects

People attached to this work in the current corpus

Architect

Lucien Kroll

1927-2022 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Role: lead architect

Primary contributor

Lucien Kroll was a Belgian architect. With his wife, Simone Kroll, he founded the Atelier d’Architecture Simone & Lucien Kroll. They are considered to be the founders—as early as 1960—of participatory architecture, a consultative and immersive approach to the design of the built environment. Kroll's idiosyncratic styl…

Bureaus

Practices attached to this work in the current corpus

Bureau

Atelier Lucien Kroll

studio · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Role: designer

Primary bureau

Atelier Lucien Kroll extends the saved.archi corpus as a bureau tied to Lucien Kroll's work, adding a broader office-level lens across buildings and places.