Pierre Laffineur & Guillaume Foguenne

First stage: master planning (scale: 1/5.000)
Urban work of three districts near the centre town of Liege. Nowadays, those are separated from each other by an expressway, and, at the same time, isolated from the centre of the city. The insulation of the districts led to their precariousness.

• Creation of architectural connections between the districts in order to balance the deficiencies and potentialities of each of the districts.
• Crossings of connections in the area where the districts and the road infrastructure meet.
• Establishment of interdisciplinary programmes reinforcing the idea of exchange between the districts. Location of the main buildings at the junction of the districts.
• Improvement of the interfaces between the road infrastructure and the blocks in order to give an identity to the districts.

Second stage: landscape planning (scale: 1/1.000)
Presence of two typologies: vegetable (wooded hill) and urban. Their current configuration creates a vertical breaking between the districts.

• Definition of this breaking line.
• Fragmentation and qualification of urban spaces by the breaking line in order to define various typologies of both squares and flows.
• Fragmentation of the programmes of the buildings located at the breaking line in order to create interactions between the various functions and their users.

Third stage: development of an object (scale: 1/200)
Creation of a tower marking and pushing back - geographically speaking - the entry of the town of Liege, so that the districts are included in there

• Interdisciplinarity of the programmes of the tower: house of the citizen, groups of companies, community centre, housing, sport hall.
• Fragmentation of the programmes creating interactions between the various functions and their users.
• Definitions of typologies of skins, underlining the multiplicity and the fragmentation of the programmes of the tower.

 

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