The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today’s sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green zones, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another &mdashcontradictory&mdash demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, whose position was an obstacle in between the fragments.
Landscape
Structural engineer
Mechanical engineer
