The 2012 edition of Parckdesign, a biennial event dedicated to green space planning initiated by Brussels Environment and the Brussels Ministry for Environment, Energy and Urban Renovation, aims to reinterpret industrial wastelands, leftover spaces and interstices in Brussels. With this challenge, Raumlabor chose to open the gates to the spacious and pleasant courtyard of Curo Hall and to extend the public space by planning a whole series of concerted developments to comply with the uses of the local associations (whose activity is usually little known to the inhabitants of the neighborhood). More images and architects’ description after the break.
In actual fact, this magnificent building, formerly a municipal school, is run by the association Vie Associative and occupied by many associations from the local district. The construction and preparation process developed progressively through a series of workshops gradually involving local partners. The first stage began at the end of February 2012 by defining the needs and aspirations of the associations and citizens likely to co-operate. In April, May and June, three workshops scanned the gradual completion of the developments in the courtyard. A series of mobile wooden structures, tables, chairs, a pergola, a platform in the trees were designed so as to allow a modular layout.
