Intervention Quartier Ecluse & Saint Lazare
Suède36, a small Brussels architecture office, commissioned Rotor to help design and organize a series of improvements for the Saint-Lazare- Ecluse neighborhood in Molenbeek, Brussels. Our specific task was to investigate possible reuse strategies for permanent equipment in the public space. The project was commissioned by the Molenbeek municipality, in the framework of an urban revitalisation program, or contrat de quartier.
We discovered that Molenbeek is regularly forced to waste significant amounts of natural stone from boardwalk paving, the municipal cemetery, various demolitions, etc. We proposed material strategies for making the most of such situations; these ideas were then used by Suède36 as starting points for their designs.
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