1010 Architecture Urbanism

Yet Heyvaert can also be defined as a neighborhood in which many newcomers to Belgium settle - despite the general quality of the housing. Where the accessibility of the public transport system, the opportunities for low-skilled work (especially in the market or in connection with the used car trade) and the robustness of the social networks create a springboard effect and intervene for the emancipation of its inhabitants. It is, in short, a creative and attractive place to live, work and visit that innovates while building on a unique industrial heritage. It is also a district for which there is little certainty about its future mutations. Guiding these mutations through time, facilitating the transition of this neighborhood to a sustainable model should be the goal of the Heyvaert PAD. New housing and workplaces are at the center of this transition, as much as qualitative streets and green spaces. In the face of uncertainty, we propose a pragmatic PAD, which manages the transition on the basis of the existing assets (patrimonial, morphological and productive) and capacities in the neighborhood. It seeks to build on the following levers of change:

• Programmatic disruption (RORO) and the need for a new productive identity beyond the productive fiction proposed by the Canal Plan.
• New parks as a tool for revitalization and value creation.
• To allow to act more quickly to the opportunities that emerge from the development of this site.
• To install reversible projects, experiments of the global plan, which can be perpetuated or substituted by other projects.
• To assist in the phasing of the applicability of some of the PAD's prescriptions, which may evolve according to their relevance to the general objectives of the development plan.