Blog Posts | Rotor Deconstruction – Reuse of building materials made easy

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The Unusual, by Design with Sense

For the opening of their new venue (January 2026)), the team at The Unusual cafe wanted a space that broke the mould. So they commissioned Design with Sense to devise a design that reflects their iden...

Brussels Design with Sense Glulam Tiles

Mar 23, 2026

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Inspiration

Emery & Cie

Wow! We’re so happy to have received the tiles from Agnès Emery’s workshop in her Brussels house, where she practised her own tile-handpainting technique! “I paint the tiles by hand alone, as it’s [.....

Emery Tiles

Feb 21, 2026

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Materials from the former convent in the Ronsaardbekestraat, Bruges

The former convent in the Ronsaardbekestraat in Bruges is currently being transformed by the non-profit organisation Oranje vzw into a 12-unit inclusive cohousing. It will accomodate people with speci...

Bruges Doors Sanitary Tiles

Dec 30, 2024

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Borgerstein building, Sint-Katelijne Waver

Our dismantling team has just brought us a first harvest of over 700 m² of ceramic floor tiles from the Borgerstein building in Sint-Katelijne Waver. Built between 1933 and 1935, this remarkable 350-b...

Borgerstein Sint-Katelijne Waver Tiles

May 14, 2024

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RE-TILE - A service to remove mortar residues from reclaimed floor tiles

Can you hear the tile machine roaring? We developed it to remove the mortar residue from the tiles we were reclaiming, but even before the machine was up and running, we started receiving requests fro...

Becircular Brussels RotorDC Tiles

May 10, 2024

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Project & Design

REALCO Cafetaria

In January 2020, the buildings of Realco , a company specialising in enzyme-based cleaning products, burned down. The offices were spared, but the entire production hall went up in smoke. Reconstructi...

Glulam Realco Rotor Asbl Tiles Vetisol

Jun 6, 2023

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Inspiration

Tiles from 'Kinderdorp Molenberg', ca. 1948, Lanaken

Kinderdorp Molenberg is a building complex in Lanaken, surrounded by a forest. The first plans were made by Koninklijke Openluchtwerken Limburg in 1948, shortly after the second world war. The project...

Lanaken Tiles

May 10, 2019

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Gemeenteschool 2, ca. 1930, Evere

As part of the renovation of the Everheide School in Evere, a 1930s building will be demolished and replaced. The architects took great care in making sure a maximum quantity of materials were salvage...

Brussels Tiles

Dec 11, 2018

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North Station, ca. 1952-1970, Brussels

We recently concluded the dismantling of large quantities of materials in the iconic Brussels North Station. Several hundreds of square meters of ceramic tiles will soon be processed to remove all tra...

Brussels Lighting North Station Stone Tiles

Sep 26, 2018

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Bâtiment du Genie Civil Val-Benoît, Joseph Moutchen, Liège

The Val-Benoît site, currently undergoing reconditioning, houses five former applied-science institutes, built by the Liège University between the 1930’s and 1960’s. Among these stands the ‘Institut d...

Joseph Moutchen Liège Tiles Viabuild

Mar 18, 2016

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About us

RotorDC is a cooperative that organises the reuse of construction materials. We dismantle, process and trade salvaged building components with a focus on finishing materials, such as hardware, doors, flooring, furniture and lighting fixtures.

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