Print Email Facebook Twitter Future Bank: a New Face in the City Title Future Bank: a New Face in the City: allowing for unconventional permeable spaces within a vast urban block Author Linde, Julia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor De Vocht, S. (mentor) Mandias, S.S. (mentor) Klooster, M.W. (graduation committee) Pimlott, Mark (mentor) Pietsch, S. (mentor) Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities Date 2022-06-22 Abstract This year, the Interiors Buildings Cities graduation studiohas revolved around the topic of the Future Bank. The project addresses the transformation of the National Bank of Belgium set in Brussels, consisting of a vast triangular urban block of 90.000 m2. The bank, designed by Van Goethem just after the Second World War, is an imposing building with a 200 meter long columnar façade rising up from the adjacent boulevard.As the city of Brussels has declared itself a doughnut economy, the city is moving away from traditional forms of economics. The city is no longer aiming for unending growth, but aiming for stability, equality and wellbeing. Therefore the bank needs to be reframed within it’s new economic and societal context. What image does the bank want to portray in the 21st century? Here the project began with the grass route movements, counteracting the heavy façade by creating more intimate spaces within the colonnade. This translated into reframing the bank into several parts with a new end stretching out towards the city. This allowed for more intimate spaces to be created within the vast urban block, creating a new public and inviting face of the bank. A new face in the city. Subject brusselstheatrebankpublicinstitutecityface To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e97873f2-8deb-49a4-852f-1df4482fc9e2 Embargo date 2022-06-22 Coordinates 50.848917, 4.359806 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Julia Linde Files PDF LINDE_JULIA_4535243_DRAWINGBOOK.pdf 44.56 MB PDF LINDE_JULIA_4535243_PRESE ... TIONP5.pdf 84.56 MB PDF LINDE_JULIA_4535243_PROJE ... OURNAL.pdf 168.33 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e97873f2-8deb-49a4-852f-1df4482fc9e2/datastream/OBJ2/view