Town Planning (Urban project environmentally responsible)
Project team
- atelierphilipemadec (Rennes), town planning
- atelier Eric François (Dijon), landscape
- Etcp (Paris), transport and traffic studies
- Score 2D (Montreuil), citizen participation and mediation
- Tribu, environmental consultants
- Greisch plc (Liege), building consultants, infrastructure, civil engineering
- P.A.U. (Bilbao), programming
Client
The Brussels Capital Region
Status: international consultation town planning
In the context of Belgium’s and Holland’s candidature for the organisation of the 2018 Football World Cup, the Brussels Capital Region launched an international call for proposals on a town planning project in the vast Schaerbeek-Formation railway area. Not far from international infrastructure (railways, waterways and airport) and local public transport (tramway and bus), the area nonetheless remains very isolated and hemmed in. The freeing-up of the polluted railway land has led to very specific constraints for the general conception of the project. The only real starting point for development of this area, trapped as it is between the industrial port area and the large railway area, is the Schaerbreek station.
Our project proposed the open, repeatable figure of a wave, extending the railway as a geometrical structure that embraces the different parameters of the programme and its future development. The programme comprises a large national stadium for international competitions, a convention centre, three hotels and apartment hotels, two schools, a shopping centre dedicated to sport, a station, an intermodal transport hub, a river station, a contemporary art and design museum, a railway museum, various sorts of housing, shops and leisure facilities.
