The Royal Museum for Central Africa is situated in the heart of a complex landscape, with the Royal Park of Tervuren facing in contrast, several kilometers outside of Brussels. A parking lot, residential homes, a neighborhood garden, a french garden, an interior garden, wooded areas, and a forest are all piled upon one another in a confused manner. The ambiguity that results and emanates from this confused assortment eclipses the noble and majestic character of the royal park. Only a subtle connecting and joining of the garden and the forest, a smooth transitioning of their scales, can give back to these exterior spaces their original coherence.

On the side facing the surrounding neighborhood, we propose to put monumentality on display. Visitors arriving at the museum will use from now on Tervuren Avenue, which leads to the new parking lot. Planted with a tall cluster of trees, the avenue is thought of as a woodland atmosphere and shapes the exterior extension of the museum. The former parking lot, from which there is a privileged point of view on the museum, is transformed into a vast public space to be shared by museum visitors and neighborhood residents.

On the side facing the park, while attempting to meet the needs of attracting a wider public, we remain the guardians of the spirit of the place. The various proposals preserve the authenticity of the spaces and the materials. Paradoxically, we take the aging of the park as a positive indication of its forest makeup. We envision, modeled after the forms of the museum's pavilions, the subtle setting up of places of modernity contrasting with the once skillfully maintained park, now fallen into disuse.