Mark Brearley and Cass Cities Summer School
Bruxelles 05 July 2014
Embrace Noordrand
Don’t shoot us, we are innocent
We spent a few days
1. No one knows what they are doing
2. It always helps
Lucky find 1 The galaxy comes to town
Lucky find 2 A filigree economy
Lucky find 3 Good and growable transit network
Lucky find 4 An eccenticity of residual landscapes
Lucky find 5 Compounds and blockages
Lucky find 6 Very European
Lucky find 7 Old streets
A shifting topography of anachronisms
Modest explorations x 15
CASS CITIES
Elise Candry
Holly Harrington
Cigdem Hacioglu
Eleanor Figueiredo
GREEN BELT Connecting all axis via pedestrian and cycle routes
EMBRACING NATO Creating a new cultural and educational hub
INTEGRATED PRISON Using the green belt to integrate the prison in community via urban farming
INDUSTRIAL REVITALISATION Revitalisation and transformed into small businesses with different scales
RESIDENTIAL INTENSIFICATION Mixed densification transgressing from urban to rural
FRAGMENTED ISLANDS
LATENT HIGHSTREETS
GOOD PROXIMITY
AGRICULTIRAL POCKETS
FEELING OF ISOLATION
UNPREDICTABLE
ORGANISED WILDERNESS
DEFINING OPEN PUBLIC SPACE AS A FRAMEWORK FOR GROWTH
Alberto Innocenti Griet Hanegreefs
Jennifer O’ Riordan Simeon Shtebunaev
Our Interpretation
Areas connected
Points of potential