Walls that teach

the youth center in Anderlecht

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

C. Zhang Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

E.P.N. Schreurs Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
J.W. Lafeber Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
E. van Meerbeek Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
H.H. Bier Architectural Engineering - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

08-07-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The story started from the invisible river Senne on the urban scale of Brussels, concentrating on the wall which is both spolia on site and the identity of my youth center. The archaeological idea of Spolia keeps me discovering the existing value, then constantly thinking of collecting, composing and re-using. Once existing fragments collide with new ones, the process of bricolage comes up.
The wall on site is the ghost of Senne that could be seen as spolia on immaterial, but now it became the backdrop of people’s lives in the neighborhood, where the youths there are facing issues such as stigmatization. The strategy of the urban proposal and architectural part is to use the wall as a frame to turn the situation from segregation and at the meanwhile to break youths’ mental wall. The old wall owns the collective memory, speaks for space. That’s why the walls teach.