A walled garden in Brussels
Ambiguity as the foundation for coexistence in the European quarter in Brussels
S.P. Meert (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
D.J. Rosbottom – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
M. Pimlott – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
K.B. Mulder – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of citizens. The tendency for the tabula rasa leads to the production of scar, but when the tabula rasa cannot be evoked, terrain vague starts to exist.
Terrain vague is defined by its ambiguous character. The project, which establishes the terrain vague as a walled garden, is a response to the scars that are made by the historic urban interventions. It defines itself as a space with a public character and gives it to those who require it. It gives meaning to a meaningless void in the city. It keeps the ambiguous, informal, and improvised character that is found on terrain vague, and translates it to a space of possibilities and forming a new center point in the European quarter in Brussels.
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