Jérémie Galerin
Transformation of Charbonnage du "HAZARD" à Cheratte. ISA Saint-Luc Liège(Belgium)
CONTEXT, LOCATION.
The coal town of Cheratte is located in a suburban area along the river Meuse.
The infrastructure is enclosed on each side by different types of “ barriers” : the Meuse, the wooded hill, the motorway and the railway.
CONSTRAINTS.
- The coal mining area is enclosed.
- It’s hardly accessible within its perimeter.
- The coal mining has a very massive and compact aspect (reading of the different functions ! ?…).
- The hill is a sort of barrier between the higher and the lower parts of Cheratte.
- None of the different footpaths of the hill leads to the mine.
- The motorway encloses Cheratte strongly with regard to Wandre.
- The centre of Cheratte is fictitious and monotonous.
- A lot of buildings in the coal mining area have been destroyed.
- This coal site is set up in the heart of housing estates.
- The village has a lack of dynamism.
SUGGESTIONS.
New functions :
- a museum illustrating the differents jobs in industry.
- a place where people can show, buy and sell second-hand materials (an indoor market).
- To make the place more accessible on its perimeter.
- To restructure the industrial block of buildings.
- To use the coal mining as a link between the higher and the lower parts of Cheratte.
- To use a part of the infrastructure so as to make the way to the hill easier.
- Not to put in place an architecture that competes, imposes or dominates what already exists.
- To preserve a maximum of the buildings, the aspect and the soul of the place.
- To privilege the circulation, transition and junction between the different functions.
- To use the relief and the height of the building so that the place can be shown to advantage and the different spaces can be clarified (museum).
- To requalify the coal mining area as the centre of Cheratte (as it was initially).
- To set up a scenography along an educational route throughout the museum.
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