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 Today the area is a combination of various high rise office blocks of which many are underused and outdated.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