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Follow The Cars To Find The People
Reusing The Past As A Framework For Heyvaert’s Social Future
In Heyvaert, if you follow the cars, you find the people. Cars play a special role in this neighbourhood, as they are carriers of jobs, communities, and Heyvaert’s diverse identities. Seemingly inanimate objects, they have shaped the social and spatial dimensions of urban life, and their legacy will continue beyond the imminent collapse of the second-hand car trade.
This project explores how the architecture formed through years of second-hand car trade can be appropriated for new uses that serve the communities. Through the adaptive reuse of a former car garage into a pool, the design reimagines car infrastructure as a means of bringing people together.
The intervention focuses on adapting the car ramps to the human scale as the main catalyst for a new civic function, creating a clear promenade architecturale that guides users towards a safe public space. At a larger scale, the project utilises the interior qualities of the historically industrial plot to enhance social security and connect the surrounding residential plots.
Overall, the project demonstrates how the architecture can truly take pleasure in the context and how the car heritage can be reinterpreted as a valuable spatial resource rather than an obsolete remnant of the car-trading past.
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This project explores how the architecture formed through years of second-hand car trade can be appropriated for new uses that serve the communities. Through the adaptive reuse of a former car garage into a pool, the design reimagines car infrastructure as a means of bringing people together.
The intervention focuses on adapting the car ramps to the human scale as the main catalyst for a new civic function, creating a clear promenade architecturale that guides users towards a safe public space. At a larger scale, the project utilises the interior qualities of the historically industrial plot to enhance social security and connect the surrounding residential plots.
Overall, the project demonstrates how the architecture can truly take pleasure in the context and how the car heritage can be reinterpreted as a valuable spatial resource rather than an obsolete remnant of the car-trading past.
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In Heyvaert, if you follow the cars, you find the people. Cars play a special role in this neighbourhood, as they are carriers of jobs, communities, and Heyvaert’s diverse identities. Seemingly inanimate objects, they have shaped the social and spatial dimensions of urban life, and their legacy will continue beyond the imminent collapse of the second-hand car trade.
This project explores how the architecture formed through years of second-hand car trade can be appropriated for new uses that serve the communities. Through the adaptive reuse of a former car garage into a pool, the design reimagines car infrastructure as a means of bringing people together.
The intervention focuses on adapting the car ramps to the human scale as the main catalyst for a new civic function, creating a clear promenade architecturale that guides users towards a safe public space. At a larger scale, the project utilises the interior qualities of the historically industrial plot to enhance social security and connect the surrounding residential plots.
Overall, the project demonstrates how the architecture can truly take pleasure in the context and how the car heritage can be reinterpreted as a valuable spatial resource rather than an obsolete remnant of the car-trading past.
This project explores how the architecture formed through years of second-hand car trade can be appropriated for new uses that serve the communities. Through the adaptive reuse of a former car garage into a pool, the design reimagines car infrastructure as a means of bringing people together.
The intervention focuses on adapting the car ramps to the human scale as the main catalyst for a new civic function, creating a clear promenade architecturale that guides users towards a safe public space. At a larger scale, the project utilises the interior qualities of the historically industrial plot to enhance social security and connect the surrounding residential plots.
Overall, the project demonstrates how the architecture can truly take pleasure in the context and how the car heritage can be reinterpreted as a valuable spatial resource rather than an obsolete remnant of the car-trading past.
A Practice Beyond Environmental Responsiveness
Critical reflection on relational, architectural ecologies of Anna Heringer’s work in Rudrapur
This thesis critically examines Anna Heringer’s architectural practice as a form of ecological design that moves beyond conventional notions of environmental responsiveness. Through the lens of posthumanist, ecofeminist, and poststructuralist theory, drawing primarily on the work of Peg Rawes, it explores how Heringer’s Rudrapur trilogy in Bangladesh engages with the relational entanglements of material, social, and environmental ecologies. Rather than viewing sustainability through a technocratic or performance-based lens, Heringer’s architecture foregrounds local materials, collective authorship, and socio-political empowerment. Her use of mud and bamboo is framed as both a practical and political act: resisting the high-carbon logic of global construction and reviving Indigenous knowledge systems. This analysis incorporates Foucauldian perspectives on power, revealing how materials embody and contest socio-economic hierarchies, and builds on Karen Barad’s agential realism to show how materials co-produce architectural meaning. Heringer’s work also reflects feminist relational theories of Rosi Braidotti, especially in her inclusive design processes and attention to marginalised users, including women and disabled individuals. However, the thesis also discusses the contradictions within her practice, particularly the postcolonial tensions tied to Western recognition as a figure, donations, and problems of authorship. Although her process's collective and participatory character is clear, along with the collaboration with a local NGO, her practice still works within the frames of Western privilege, which raises questions about the representational equity. Overall, this thesis argues that the theory of relational ecologies enriches the discussion on the emerging methodologies, helping to asses their potentials but also limitations.
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This thesis critically examines Anna Heringer’s architectural practice as a form of ecological design that moves beyond conventional notions of environmental responsiveness. Through the lens of posthumanist, ecofeminist, and poststructuralist theory, drawing primarily on the work of Peg Rawes, it explores how Heringer’s Rudrapur trilogy in Bangladesh engages with the relational entanglements of material, social, and environmental ecologies. Rather than viewing sustainability through a technocratic or performance-based lens, Heringer’s architecture foregrounds local materials, collective authorship, and socio-political empowerment. Her use of mud and bamboo is framed as both a practical and political act: resisting the high-carbon logic of global construction and reviving Indigenous knowledge systems. This analysis incorporates Foucauldian perspectives on power, revealing how materials embody and contest socio-economic hierarchies, and builds on Karen Barad’s agential realism to show how materials co-produce architectural meaning. Heringer’s work also reflects feminist relational theories of Rosi Braidotti, especially in her inclusive design processes and attention to marginalised users, including women and disabled individuals. However, the thesis also discusses the contradictions within her practice, particularly the postcolonial tensions tied to Western recognition as a figure, donations, and problems of authorship. Although her process's collective and participatory character is clear, along with the collaboration with a local NGO, her practice still works within the frames of Western privilege, which raises questions about the representational equity. Overall, this thesis argues that the theory of relational ecologies enriches the discussion on the emerging methodologies, helping to asses their potentials but also limitations.