Malorie Frison

Museum and training centre on new energies

The Cheratte colliery and its inhabited environment have become an “island” separated from their territory. Now, they are part of the Basse-Meuse landscape again. Jewel of the past industrial power of Liège, the strong architecture of this “lost world” is now an urban wasteland with an uncertain future.

Relaunching this territorial symbol and its socio-economic context is a project related to the will to think about the new role it should play within the overall development of the Liège area. Socio-territorial functions and relations are created through the search of the new links the neighbourhood could have with the river bend (Wandre) and with the other inhabited parts of the town. The proposed infrastructures meet this double need.

The aim of the project is to create a process based on new principles coming from strong nature elements (earth, water, wind, sun) in order to build a new future related to new energies. The project creates a local opening (creation of public places, a museum, an exhibition hall and a cafeteria) and a regional, and even Euregional, opening (creation of a state-of-the-art centre for research and training on new energies which are the future of the society).

The architecture of the training centre fits the function of the building by using new building methods specific to new energies. The building demonstrates the use of these techniques and gives hope for a positive future. It binds several public places like the hill, the concrete slab with its vegetal and mineral spaces, the footbridge and its cultural centre which leads to the garden city of Cheratte.

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