1010 Architecture Urbanism

The project starts from a double reading of the landscape: on the one hand, the hydro-geomorphology of the soil and, on the other, the existing peripheral urban palette of built and unbuilt space: the archipelago of housing dreams, the in-between land, the infrastructure valley, ... The water system map by Jan Staes (University of Antwerp) helps us to read the landscape as a gradient of permanently wet, temporarily wet and dry areas. From this perspective, we elaborate a set of spatial development principles for the creation of Water Districts, based on an overlapping reading of hydro-geomorphological and urban planning features. These principles are translated into spatial imaginations for specific places in the Woluwe valley, and distilled into an urban planning toolbox that can be applied across the entire 20th century belt in and around Brussels.