This is a design for a 'public' water filtration system with bathhouse facilities and housing in an existing industrial building.

Onward Edges is a response to the urban architecture brief 'lowtown downtown', in which I tried to understand the relation between centre and periphery through the lens of an ecologist. Onward Edges is a project situated in the Blikfabriek, a characteristic edge of Antwerp, an undesired, vacant factory hall. However, the edge is not only that, on the contrary the edge facilitates many functions equally important to the city's functioning as the centre. This project aims to design a space for people to live with these functions we have pushed to the edge and tries to find architectural value in otherwise unseen (eco)systems, such as water filtration. To not only live, but become consious of these systems humans depend on and build a relation of care with water and water-bound life forms that ensure its quality. The project does this by making space for the ornament, which is an oppertunity for those that inhabit the space to find symbolical, emotional meaning to the place they call home.