Special Mention – Carsid sur la Sàmbre Special Mention – Matière savante

AUTHOR(S) — Vania Collazo (ES), Víctor Romero (ES), Architects CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Juan Barón (ES), Student in architecture TEAM POINT OF VIEW — “Carsid sur la Sàmbre” is a landscape proposal of connection and re-use that aims at turning a damaged zone into a new entertaining, didactic and relaxing unit within Charleroi. The project connects citizens through a shared space in the middle of the surrounding neighbourhoods. The past history of the place is not destroyed; instead, the project repurposes it into a self-fixing space. In so, a former industrial spot in a privileged position is turned into a common area that does not break up with the industrial remains, but actually improves them. The project is a tapestry that uses the remains of the existing train trails and takes the existing structures into consideration. With this, the pattern organises communication without forcing and unifies the whole intervention area. AUTHOR(S) — Leandro Ferreira Soares (FR), Bertrand Etienne Le Personnic (FR), Yannis Fremont Marinopoulos (FR), Hugo Maffre (FR), Architects CONTACT — 4 Zaragoza St., 36203 Vigo (ES) +34 617661629

Matière savante

rocoarchitects@gmail.com / www.rocoarchitects.com

CHARLEROI (BE) — SPECIAL MENTION

CONTACT — parages 8 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris (FR) +33 650139912 / www.parages-architectes.eu

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — How to regenerate the industrial past that is now our heritage? How to find attractiveness on a site without distorting it? How to find a resilient economy? “Matière savante” proposes an iterative process of transformation and remobilization of the industrial heritage and local context through an inventory. A catalogue of four elements: landscape; structure; fluids; and human knowledge. It is about transforming the existing materials through deconstruction and re-use. Instead of freezing intentions, “Matière savante” proposes a method that cannot exist without the local human needs and knowledge. It is rather an iterative contextual method, applicable to other industrial sites with the same issues of enclave and abandonment. A productive process which reveals the historical and knowledgeable material of these sites.