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Fontainas Island Reconfiguration

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B612 associates

Programe
The park’s participative program includes a sports field, different play areas for early childhood, children, teenagers... but also leisure places for all ages, a multi-purpose field adequate for mini soccer game and a vegetable garden. The 5 (passive) buildings host 22 social housing, 35 student housing, a daycare for 20 children, a sports hall, a multi-purpose room, a restaurant space and a 42 slots underground parking space. The sport hall slides underground to offer more space to the park.
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About
Located in the heart of Brussels, the site resulted from industrial remains. Despite of a direct proximity to the most frequented high heritage areas, it was an indefinite place with no attractiveness. Poorly attended, it separated the affluent part of the city from its disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The urban issue was to open the site to create connections, mend the abandoned urban fragments and improve the economic and social disparities with programs responding to people’s needs in terms of housing, sports, leisure, comfort and safety.

The expected urbanistic response was a reconstruction of the classic closed block, a typology that would have generated a park with low accessibility. This is why the proposed Master plan reverses the logic of the block to articulate a porous morphology offering new perspectives connecting the neighbourhoods. Maximum extension of the park is made possible, thanks to buildings with minimized footprints that punctuate it like rocks in a sea of greenery. They accommodate the ambitious program without reducing the surfaces available for public space.

The use of singular buildings makes it possible to dress the blind party walls of the site and rebalances the volumes of the city around the new park. Urban continuity is no longer ensured by the façades, but by the park. The atypical volumes serves as landmarks and warrants of the social animation. They create perspectives and direct the flow connecting the surrounding neighbourhoods.
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Typology
Various
Status
Built
Year of conception
2012-2020
Year of delivery
2020
Client
VILLE DE BRUXELLES, Régie foncière
Total budget
13280089
Per square meters
1530
Area
8677
Stability
Ney + Partners
Special techniques
MK Engineering
Landscape
OLM

Ilôt Fontainas
1000 Bruxelles

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