Brussels North Quarters

Mapping relations, drawing use.

The intermediate workshop ran in collaboration with Studio Brussels North, 1st 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 Today the area is a combination of various high rise office blocks of which many are underused and outdated.

During the two-week workshop the students investigated the temporary use of one of these office blocks: WTC1. They were each assigned a floor with a variety of users. By mapping the interventions and users in the strict format of an axonometric drawing, relations between floors were uncovered and visualized.






Participants: Freek Persyn, Koenraad Van Cleempoel

2017-2018


Image: Programmatic reuse WTC1, sketch by Freek Persyn, 2017