Alternating forest stripes

The design is one of the strategic projects which is testing the concept of forest and water urbanism in the area surrounded Sonian Forest: “OSA co-led (with Metro Lab, UCL and Horizon +) an intensive design workshop in the Groenendaal Castel, centrally located in the Sonian Forest. The forest is simultaneously an essential ecological reserve and the main park of the Brussels Metropolitan Region. Design propositions were made for a vision of the territory (spanning the Brussels, Walloon and Flemish regions), which focused on new eye-opening propositions through the lenses of ecology, mobility and settlement. Fundamental restructuring of each and of their interplays is an urgent necessity. In addition to the territorial vision for the region where forest and settlement are inherently intertwined, 35 participants from 16 countries completed fieldwork and developed 4 zoom-in plans and a catalogue of ‘forest and water urbanisms’ tools for transformation. The workshop initiated a process that work across scales, stakeholders and agencies.” (RUA, 2018)

Location: Brussels, Belgium
Designers: RUA/OSA-led workshop (Bruno De Meulder, OSA, KU Leuven Kelly Shannon) with MetroLab, UCL (Roselyne de Lestrange) and Horizon+ (Jo Decoster) withMarlies Aerts, Rayan Al Ghareeb, Marija Beg, Jolein Bergers, Francesco Bortolato, Nicolo Croce, Giulia Crotti, Matteo J. da Lisca, Marine Declève, Ernesto Diez, Meryem Canan Durak, Goran Erfani, Andrea Fantin, Thao Huynh, Kobe Kiekens, Peter Loewi, Xuan Ha Vu Luu, Melinda Martinus, Dieu Nguyen T. Minh, Alvise Moretti, Minh Quang Nguyen, Rui Olivera, Hongxia Pu, Bindi Raditya, Raquel Santos, Daniel Siemsgluss, Teodor Ioan Staicu, Hanna Stynen, Yuying Sun, Maria Tsatira, Giulia Vergassola, Minh Phuoc Vu, Xinyu Xiao, Mariia Zakharova, Alberto Zaragoza
Commissioned by: Horizon+ (2018)

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