Mark Brearley and Cass Cities Summer School

Bruxelles 05 July 2014

Embrace Noordrand

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Don’t shoot us, we are innocent

We spent a few days

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This bit

Two rules

1. No one knows what they are doing

2. It always helps

We agree

We believe

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Lucky finds

Lucky find 1 The galaxy comes to town

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Lucky find 2 A filigree economy

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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

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Lucky find 7 Old streets

A shifting topography of anachronisms

Lively spines

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

Unlocking Links

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

Careful looking

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Lucky finds

Nimble

Inclusive

Celebratory

Extrovert

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Welcoming