Brussels North Quarters
Mapping relations, drawing use.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 Today the area is a combination of various high rise office blocks of which many are underused and outdated.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