Brussels celebrates itself as a city of openness, mobility and diversity. Yet for many migrants and asylum seekers, arrival is experienced through fragmentation: dispersed services, temporary accommodation and unfamiliar bureaucratic landscapes. The Embassy for Arrivals begins with this contradiction, asking how architecture might transform arrival from a condition of uncertainty into one of belonging.
Brussels celebrates itself as a city of openness, mobility and diversity. Yet for many migrants and asylum seekers, arrival is experienced through fragmentation: dispersed services, temporary accommodation and unfamiliar bureaucratic landscapes. The Embassy for Arrivals begins with this contradiction, asking how architecture might transform arrival from a condition of uncertainty into one of belonging.