The intermediate workshop ran in collaboration with Studio Brussels North, 1^st Master in Architecture at Hasselt University.

The North Quarter in Brussels is a business area largely constructed in the 1960-70’s. The plans for the transformation of this part of the city were con­troversial since they implied the expropriation and erasure of a large neighbourhood. Today the area is a combination of various high rise office blocks of which many are underused and outdated.

The students participated in an on-site master class and lecture programme. They looked at this areas through the lens of adaptive reuse, not by planning it once more from the top down, but instead investi­gating how a transition could be imagined, building on its (odd) qualities and the forms of use that have already taken shape there. Organised on the 19th floor of the emblematic WTC1 tower, the studio opened up to the public, triggering a discussion and an experience beyond the scope of architecture. By doing so, the studio itself became one moment in the occurring transformation of the North Quarter.