Let's talk about Landscape
Workshop Brussels (BE) - Workshop Site 1
PARTICIPANTS:
Federico Aru (IT), Michela Serra (IT) Winner in Cuneo (IT) with "Green is the Colour"
Clara Loukkal (FR), Benoit Barnoud (FR), Winner in Besançon (FR) with "JURASSIC PARKS"
Océane Follador (FR), Runner-up in Angers (FR) with "Off the beaten tracks"
Bérengère Chauffeté (FR), Special Mention in Trelleborg (SE) with "Future Comes Slowly"
Coach: Jens Metz (DE)
Guest critic: Maarten Dierijk from Brussels Bouwmeester Chief Architect
SITE 1 - NEPERDEE - ANDERLECHT
FOODSCAPE
Food Production is an essential issue for the city in a context where circularity, durability, mobility and economic challenges concentrate the main focus. This site is located between Neerpede, a mostly agricultural and peri-urban area, the South-West region of Brussels and metro station COOVI/CERIA, representing an entry point to the urban context of the Belgian capital.
There are various objectives:
- considering the site of Neerpede, and especially the site of La Ferme du Chaudron (Cauldron’s Farm), as a wide food market supposed to “feed” the city,
- considering and rethinking the landscape of the farm and its agricultural surroundings,
- considering mobility in the site of Neerpede and mobility towards the city, while dealing with the metro station COOVI/CERIA as a turning point between this area with landscape issues dedicated to food production and the city and its consumers.
Several questions are raised in this zone:
1- What type of landscape project can integrate the fields located near the Cauldron’s Farm?
2- What mobility solutions could be designed to integrate this peri-urban area to the city?
3- What architectural project could be conceived for the Cauldon’s Farm, which is dedicated to be transformed into a wide food market for Brussels’ inhabitants?
4- How to think the peri-urban area of the metro station COOVI/CERIA and its surroundings as an entry point for food production to the city?
FOODSCAPE raised the question of the future relationship between agricultural productive areas and urban space.
The proposed site is located in the South-West of the Brussels region, at the edge of mainly agricultural semi-urban areas and large commercial and research complexes along the ring road. This creates land-use conflicts, urban sprawl VS productive landscape, accessibility vs. preservation.
The aim was to negotiate these problems, to find ways for a respectful use of existing resources, the opportunities for new mobilities and a fair and equal policy to manage the process. Paraphrasing Thomas Sieverts, it was about the activation of ZwischenLand, in order to keep agricultural production close to the heart of the city and in the hearts of the citizens, both literal and metaphorical.
Let's talk about Landscape
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Let’s talk about Landscape is a proposal for coexistence between landscape and urbanization, arguing with evocative images of the pastoral landscape. Inspired by Agence Ter’s work on the Molenbeek valley, the project aims to stop the current nonreflective land consumption and to overcome the opposition of the urban sprawl and the course of the water. A system of cultivation of the slopes, derived from the famous model of Patrick Geddes, stretches from the riverbanks to the hilltops, defining the future city limits by a revelation of the quality of the existing landscape.
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Let's talk about Landscape
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