Sanatorium Joseph Lemaire - Belgium

At a distance of 20 kilometers South of Bruxelles, in Tombeek, lie the remains of a sanatorium, opened in 1937.
It was called Joseph Lemaire, it took name from the director of the Prévoyance Sociale, the commitment that assigned works to the architect Maxime Brunfaut, for building a place  to cure  150 male patients.

Functionalist principles applied to the building could make a rapid convertion during the next years for other purposes, essentially as health institution.

Even if relevant for Belgian architecture, the building has been abandoned at the mercy of environmental decay and vandalism for years. Since last December renovation works started. Hopefully, they'll bring it to a new life.
The place is made up of a main body and some minor structures. At first one enters from an avenue, with a guardian house. Left of it is the Doctor's house, or what's left of it after a fire has destroied part of the interiors, but some rooms still contain an archive and some sewing machines. Not far from it a heating plant, a loundry and personell accomodations.
The building shows now only his skeleton or just some architectural elements such as columns or external walls with tiles. Generally speaking is quite poor of any details closed to the past activites. Modernism rules were applied, studing new design modes. It still can tell much of an architectural point of view but any other aspect has gone.