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KERAMIEK & CULTUUR, Revisited Brownfield

Why | To reconvert an industrial area at the technical university
What | Multi-analyse + vision + concept + masterplan + implementation plan
Where | Delft, the Netherlands
With | ABL2 + TCN
Who | For Woonbron + Kristal + city of Delft

After Blauw, we dealt with a second hotspot at the Schieovers: the Nieuwe Haven (New Port). A place where is an old beautiful ceramic factory and a well know museum about Blue Delft: het Porceleyne Fles. It is also very close to the university. Again, a 4D-analyse is realized. I made a map with the buildings of different architectural value.

The theme is chosen: Keramiek en Cultuur (Ceramic and Culture). The place will be dedicated to both tourists and students. It will be a creative place where cultures mix together where the University and the historical city center finally meet.

I designed a phasing scheme and a program. The district will develop gradually and in function of the availabilities of the plots to become a vibrant waterfront in Delft.

VAL MORIN, Revitalized Village

Why | To revitalise the centre of a shrinking city with a 3-years program
What | Analysis + process management + workshops + strategies + first actions plan
Where |  Val-Morin, Québec, Canada
Who | For city of Val-Morin

I assisted in the collaborative process for the development of the SWOT analysis and short term / tactical revitalization strategy. With a core group, we visited the centre by bus with a local historian, we hold an evening to present data and collect ideas to finally meet again to develop an action plan.

CREAPOLE, Redesigned Mine Centre

Why | To redevelop a post-industrial area
What | Team management + analysis + organic/phased masterplan + office modular system
Where | Wallers-Arenberg, France
With |  ENSAPL
Who | For city of Wallers-Arenberg

After the exploration of the whole Regional Natural Park Scarpe-Escaut, we focused on Wallers-Arenberg mining site.

It stretches on 14 hectares and is made of a pit where a high slag heap stood, about 10 listed buildings of which 3 are head frames, a flat slag heap, subsidence basins and a former railway used to evacuate coal. It is located between a mining village and a national forest, not far from famous race “Paris-Roubaix”.

We took down and analyzed important components: landscape, historical review, population, infrastructures, scales, private and public stakeholders on the site. That is how we have drawn 3 poles to develop: mine memory, sports and leisure, companies development. We called it “Créapole”.

The pit becomes a transitional garden between the forest and the town. An interior street leads off to the young firms that can develop according to the need (offices/workshops modules). The reception of the Natural Park, the head office of the community of communes, a swimming-pool and a memory pole revolve around a designed square.

The workplace modules are built upon firms’ request. Around a sanitary hard newel, partitions create rooms. The modules can be combined to create rooms from different sized according companies’ needs.

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