Negotiating ways to intervene

transforming an existing warehouse into a vocational school

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

J.J. Smit Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

E.P.N. Schreurs Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S. Stalker Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
A.S.C. Meijer Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

26-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

This project explores how continuous iterative drawing and model making can contribute to a deeper understanding of the challenges and potentialities of an existing building in its relation to a new programme.
In Brussels, a post-industrial landscape split in 2. One side has flourished into one of the most bio-diverse places in the city. The other is filled with a multitude of smaller industrial buildings. At the edge of a railway track a warehouse from the 60s is repurposed into a vocational construction school. The circular ideology is embedded in the school by a recuperated material depot. Consequently, the project focuses on only intervening where needed, using quick & dry interventions as much as possible.
Through an extensive research consisting of drawing and model making the discrepancies between the challenges and potentialities of the existing building and the new programme are explored. This deep understanding; of what there is and what is needed, makes it possible to intervene efficiently in unexpected and playful ways.