The built environment defines the relationships between the environment and people, so I believe social issues can be dealt with spatial means.
CONTENT
ACADEMIC
City and Migration
4 Metropolitan Quarter of Arrival 2017, MaHS Project
CIty and Industry
14 City of Makers 2018, Venice Biennale Competition
City and Aging
22 Trading Community 2017, MaAR Dissertation
City and Diversity
38 This is the Place! 2015, MaAR Project
City and Regeneration
48 Pocket Plaza 2011, BS Arch Dissertation
PROFESSIONAL
56 ADVANTECH Headquarter 2011-2013, Stonehenge Architects International
58 SORGSAM Construction Co., Ltd. Housing 2012- , Stonehenge Architects International
APPENDIX
63 CV
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I always believe that the architectures should interact with the environment and the people. In my acadamic works studied hard on the sites and the activities, which are what I really care about and focus on.
Metropolitan Quarter of Arrival Facilitating mobility and social infrastructure within the Brussels North Station 2017, MaHS Project (Group work)
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Brussels North is a place of ultra-mobility, one of the most distinguishable places of arrival in the city. The station plays an important role in the discourse of arrival and positions itself within the narrative of refugee and immigrant arrival into the city. Newcomers entering the city encounter various degrees of arrival for different durations of stay; from first arriving at the station and trying to orientate oneself to then gradually working towards more extensive arrival procedures and infrastructures distributed around the city that assist with civil and social naturalisation. There are many mismatches that exists in the way in which people are received at the station. There is no metropolitan gesture of reception upon arrival. Our project proposes a new ‘Metropolitan Quarter of Arrival’ that integrates the dense mix of multiple mobility flows with the social organization of various platforms and associations. The new station quarter is a common ground for all the aspirations of all newcomers and provides a welcoming ethos to all.
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Brussels Arrival City
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18.710 Assylum seekers
11 European network of migrant women
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340.000 commuters/day
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Brussels Arrival city
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Rode Kruis Centre Brussels - De Foyer Maison de la Solidaite La Voix des femmes Arab Cultural Centre Music Acadmy Asbl Africalia Vzw European Council on Refugees and exiles Welcome home (women) Fedasil Headquarters - recieving refugees ASBL Cohesion
Figures for 2016, sources: BISA, VISIT. BRUSSELS, CGVS/CGRA, ACTIRIS
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44 No Peace without justice 45 Duo for a job
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Mapping arrival infrastructures reveals the particular features of the Brussels arrival city. It shows how the arrival city is a city within a city. Arrival infrastructures are concentrating in neighbourhoods where immigrants look for opportunities and social networks to start integrating in the city. Therefore the arrival city also is a network of immigrants or newcomers. The arrival city is not only self-built by generations of newcomers but is facilitated by governmental and non-governmental organizations. These institutions have established themselves close to arrival neighbourhoods to provide administrative assistance, language courses and so forth.
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Statements on “the arrival city is …” taken from the publication “Making Heimat: Germany, Arrival country” accompanying the exhibition in the German Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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There is a disconnect between the overall arrival infrastructure within Brussels as a whole and those within the North Quarter. It is evident that a large proportion of the arrival in the North Quarter is unfacilitated, either completely absent or inefficient to sustain the large flow of people entering through the North Station.
Ambition 1
All mobility flows are positioned equally within the north quarter
Ambition 2
The north quarter is a metropolitan node in the overall arrival networks
Groningen Enschede
Hamburg
Bremen Hannover
Amsterdam
Braunschweig
Munster
Den Haag
London
Berlin
Dortmund Bochum
Rotterdam
Essen
Arnhem
Duisburg
Aachen
Dusseldorf Cologne
Maastricht Lille
Bonn
Frankfurt
luxembourg
Stuttgart
Metz
Prague
Ulm Paris
Augsburg
Strasbourg
Basel
Munich
Zurich
Vienna
Bratislava
Geneva Lyon Milan
Porto
Barcelona Lisbon
the arrival city is connecting scales Networks of arrival infrastructure are expanding over the entire city and exist on various scales; ethnic networks, municipal associations, federalized administrations, ... These various levels of networks and organisations can be connected to create a comfortable arrival experience for newcomers.
the arrival city is visible & accessible Sign-posting and digital applications makes arrival more visible and accessible for newcomers. Services of information and assistance are positioned close to mobility hubs, which are the initial arrival places for newcomers. This will make it easier vulnerable groups to integrate in the city.
the arrival city is the city Designing for arrival is an important aspect of city-making and encourages design that integrates the aspirations of different groups.
North-South section through CCN building showing how the mobility flows and arrival program are conneting through the ground floor.
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Strategies
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shared arrival program
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REGISTRATION OFFICE TRAM STATION
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Many common services are provided by different organizations for newcomers in the city such as language courses, administrative assistance, cultural activities, ... Organizations are seeking space in the city to facilitate newcomers, shared spaces provide an efficient solution for these organizations to share common services. The north station facilitates the space for common and city-scale arrival infrastructure. Throughout the station language classes, information desks and event spaces are shared by different organizations. Because of this associations are brought closer to newcomers.
CONNECTION OF THE GROUND FLOOR PLAZA TO THE FOYER OF THE WTC TOWER
CONNECTION OF THE GROUND FLOOR PLAZA TO ADJACENT BUILDINGS
LEGAL & ADMINISTRATIVE ADVICE DESK
LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
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Startpunt Vluchtelingenwerk
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creating a culture of welcome
FLUIDITY OF THE GROUND FLOOR TO FIRST FLOOR PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
INTERNATIONAL BUS STATION ON THE GROUND FLOOR PLAZA
INFO DESK FOR CITIZEN INTEGRATION PROGRAMS
BAPA BXL (Walloon Region) BON (Flemish Region) VIA asbl
Visual representation of the proposed front and back of the new metropolitan North station
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City of Makers Ecologies of Sharing
2018, Marghera City of Making International Design Competition, Vennice Biennale (Group work)
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Mestre’s and Marghera’s future is about making. They form a City of Makers, makers of craft and knowledge, but also makers of the city. They are making connections as well as nature and are re-making under-utilised or misused spaces in the city. Their collective actions and interactions make the city. They share all. The city is full of opportunities and resources. To create a sustainable and inclusive ecology to thrive in, makers share space, tools, knowledge and skills. The new making implies sharing.
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STORIES OF MAKERS AND THEIR MAKINGS The stories of Mestre and Marghera are closely linked to Venice Island, the industrial port and the Veneto region. Making Venice and Marghera required the diversion and transformation of the lagoon and natural waterways. It is a maritime municipality with global reach. Venice’s trade and port city always attracted plenty of merchants and travellers. Today it mainly draws tourists. Crossroads between the world and Europe, East and West, island and mainland, the port of Marghera developed into a site of services and industry and traditionally drew a lot of workers. Venice relies on the mainland for the supply of and access to resources, amenities and transport. Mestre and Marghera offer modern services and more affordable housing options than Venice. Many people working in Venice indeed live in Mestre that also hosts large migrant communities. Their presence resonates in the variety of ethnic shops along Via Piave. Mestre also accommodates many Venitian university students and tourists, stretching their budgets. In short, it accommodates transient and diverse communities moving through and working in the area and actually remaking the city. Deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera results in the vacancy of large tracts of land and industrial buildings, as well as unemployment, while water, soil and air pollution threaten the liveability of the whole lagoon. Heat island effects, sea level rising and water shortage add up to the challenges. Vacancy, however, is not only problematic. It also implies the possibility of re-use. Mestre and Marghera can be laboratories of the new making. It is hence imperative to find new forms of making that simultaneously address the ecological and social challenges
CITY David Harvey (2012) postulates the right to the city as a right to change and reinvent the city after our heart’s desires. It is, moreover, rather a collective right. Reinventing the city indeed inevitably requires the exercise of collective power4. Mestre station is a busy crossroads of flows and rhythms of different people, activities and movements. Despite the 100.000 commuters and tourists that cross it every day, public space and civic amenities are limited and the car literally colonises the city blocks around Mestre station. Consequently, Via Piave and Via Ca’ Marcello are dotted with vacant buildings, vaste and small derelictsites, car parks and expansive parking lots, unwelcoming frontages, rest spaces along rail and motorway. However, Mestre and Marghera also have plenty of potentials. Via Piave has beautiful porticoes, waiting for an invasion of smaller scale undertakings. Marghera can easily host larger civic amenities in its historical garden city pattern. Conscious and quality driven making is induced. It invades Marghera and Mestre, fills the vacancies, revitalises the fabric. Contemporary forms of craftwork are indeed the way forward, the path to remaking lively and inclusive urbanity. The station area realizes a vibrant connection between Mestre and Marghera, spanning the divide of the railway with an elevated and expanded urban square. The energy in the station area draws into the city and reactivates ground floors along Via Piave and Via Ca’ Marcello. Residents and visitors re-engage with the culture of making, making things, making social connections. Joy comes with creating, making. Enjoyable life recreates enjoyable street life. Mestre and Marghera turn into urban living rooms. Celebrating the quality of Italian cities as they were known, but remaking what this means for the future. As it used to be, but completely new. The future city of making is in the making..
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MAKE(R)
SHARING
“I make therefore I am.”
“There is no joy in possession without sharing”.
To make is to be human. Making, ‘doing a job well’, is an innate human desire. In The Craftsman (2008), Richard Sennet explained very clearly how the product of our making becomes a symbol of one’s skill and being2. With Sennet, we ask ourselves ‘how do (people) develop skills in the course of making things, whether they are physical objects, social relations or environments’?
Cities naturally accumulate resources. What else is a city then accumulation? Do we, however, make clever and wise use of this treasure? Narrow, historically misgrown conceptions of ownership obstruct today to often evident use of potentials. Whilst making, working and living in individualised private homes or offices, people miss out on the true wealth the city has to offer – the opportunity to learn through close proximity and collaboration with other makers. Creating space for making and sharing in the city means reclaiming vacant, underutilised or misused spaces and remaking them into collective spaces, shared facilities for crafting, moving, producing, learning and living. Co-working and co-making spaces give everyone opportunities to make. Vacant buildings turn into community centres, co-learning hubs, shared workshops, apprenticeship and skills’ training studios, collective production spaces and communal tool sheds. Underutilised dormitory style residence and tourist buildings with seasonal occupation convert into co-living hubs with mixed resident groups and different terms of stay. Parking lots host events of all kinds. The train station and the bus station square become shared social spaces. The arcades and canopies daily accommodate lively mosaics where small scale making, play and recreation take place simultaneously. Streets are reclaimed and remade into scenes of interaction and social exchange.
The processes of making, collaboration and sharing of knowledge are anyhow intrinsic to human development. The art of conscious making and craft is an antidote for social exclusion, lack of respect and low quality services or products of the overindustrialised production process. Conscious forms of making and sharing fulfil emotional needs of makers and thus transcend economic compensation, the meager focus of capitalism. Cooperation and collaboration are indeed very important in processes of making since social relations help people to engage with their work and environment in a cognitive and non-defensive way. Making together equals building communities. The future of making in Mestre and Marghera necessarily turns back to conscious ways of making, celebrates crafts and skills, and shares knowledge and tools. This gives everyone the opportunity to be a maker, to make for the sake of making and being engaged. Embedded in the increasingly diverse demography of the city, there are an incredible richness and depth of know-how and wisdom to be shared if makers have the space to connect and collaborate.
NATURE “To save nature is to save us...if we do not all work together to save the environment, we will all be equally extinct.” The urban heat island effect threatens the liveability in the city. Temperature differences between Mestre and the surrounding Veneto, are always more than 4 ◦ C, and sometimes pass above 7◦C. Water shortage is becoming acute. An integrated ecosystem of parks, tree lines and public spaces is anchored on the inherited patchwork of open spaces (and some interesting peripheral parks) in Mestre and the garden district structures in Marghera. Moreover, oversized roads are reclaimed to make more nature in the city and to create a safe and pleasant pedestrian and bicycle network, give priority to public transport. The abundance of trees and vegetation mitigates the heat island effect, provides pleasant shade, retains water and purifies the air. Massive amounts of space currently trapped under cars are made into nature that allows new appropriations. Car parks turn into alternative energy stations, bio-mass generators, rainwater catchment tanks and recycling stations on the ground floor.
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CITY OF MAKERS “We have what we need if we use what we have.� The city of makers thrives on the rediscovery and remaking of the wealth of space, knowledge, wisdom, in short, all already available resources in Mestre and Marghera. The future of making is the recognition that everyone is a maker; that the city is a place of shared opportunity and that protecting as well as making nature ensures the continuation of the making. Therefore, be a maker. Make the city. Make nature in the city. Make together. Share all. Sharing is the new making.
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Co-Producing Space
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Station Plaza
Green Space as the connection
Co-Working Space
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TRADING COMMUNITY Aging and Exchanging in the suburban community 2017, MaAR Thesis
This is a project about aging and suburbia, with the site located in the suburbia borough of Bromley. Aging is a process that we all face. It can be discussed in many ways and I would like to discuss the identity in this project. To remind the older person that he is an individual instead of a part of homogenous group called elderly, I want to give them more options of life and more chances to interact with the environment.
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Bromley has many typical suburbia features such as cheap land, more privacy and more nature. On the other hand, the low-density of the borough also makes it difficult for its inhabitants to have access to the resources and the fewer common space. These are the main problems I observe. In this project, I try to propose some informal ways of aging in the suburb. I take the older people as initiators of the activities in a society instead of just passive receivers. They function through trading the resources they have, either with the financial capital or social capital. This research is conducted with an aim to provide the older people with more chances to trade as well as more spaces to trade in. The proposed urban strategy is to increase the density and make these spaces the interface of trading. The result of my design is not a fixed project with everything planned, but a project to discover some possibilities of what the resources to trade can be and how these trades can help the elderly age in place. I will provide various options which they might not yet have thought of,so that they can choose a way to improve their life or invent a new way to use the space based on my intervention. I will start with the discussion of the identity of the elderly and the analysis of the suburb of Bromley, and then I will zoom in from both sides to reach the final result.
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IDENTITY The identity relates to the concept of "self" (Vasile, 2011). Self-image refers to the unique characteristics of every person, and it forms who you are and how you look like, and makes a distinction between one person and another. This difference forms identity, which helps people reduce the frailty during aging (Gale et. al., 2013), and it fosters the senior to live healthily and in well-being (Gardner, 2013). The construction of identity refers to how people perceive the relation between one's "self" and other objects (Vasile, 2011; Bong & Clark, 1999; Byrne, 1984; Byrne & Worth, 1996; Shavelson & Bolus 1982). Therefore, the process happens in the interaction with the environment. The interface is called "identity structure" (Vasile, 2008), and Vasile suggests there are seven fundamental identity structures: Physical Identity, Social Identity, Cultural Identity, Family Identity, Professional Identity, Self-esteem, Behavior towards itself4. The identity formation is a process throughout our whole life (Warren, 1992) and it is dynamic according to different situations we are in. As the identity can be influenced by the job, the shift from working to retirement is a significant factor in the formation of identity in aging. That is one of the reasons why some people still seek different kinds of work after retiring. However, the identity can also be established by other interfaces. I think that to help people emphasize some kinds of identity structures can help them preserve their identities during aging. I would like to discuss them in the following paragraph.
_Self-Efficacy and Identity Self-efficacy is how much you believe in yourself that you can accomplish the task. It relates to the physical situation of your body, and it is usually a comparison to the past. Barnhart and PeĂąaloza (2013) discuss the difference between aging and getting old. We all keep aging continuously. While the loss of certain abilities makes people feel old, it varies according to different experiences and the individuality of people. The self-efficacy affects not only the mobility of the person (Gardner,2013) but also the way they deal with the environment. People avoid doing something as they think they will fail, but sometimes they can complete the task with some help. A simple example: the elevator helps the elderly go higher. I think to provide some assistance infrastructures can protect people from the reduction in activeness, and provide different choices when they deal with the environment. _Social Connection and Idenpendence When people get old, their social capital shrinks by retiring, losing relatives or friends, decreasing mobility and etc., but the social capital plays an important role in supporting their independent life. It provides support during the falls, and the social connection also helps people present their independence while interacting with others (Gardner,2013). Providing activities and opportunities to meet with other people will enhance the connection between the residents, and the activities related to community-building increase the shared sense (Greenfield et al., 2012). Independence not only gives people more confidence and self-esteem but also helps them have more freedom and privacy, all of which will effect a better social connection. Although connection and independence sound like two opposite concepts, they can and should cooperate with each other.
_Consumption and identity As aging makes people reduce ability, some older adults rely on consumption for daily life as an alternative way (WeltĂŠ, 2015). Identity can be constructed through activities related to consumption (Barnhart and PeĂąaloza, 2013; Firat and Venkatesh 1995). Every decision made by people is an expression of preference and condition. Besides, people feel independent when they consume even though they pay for help. The sense of the abilility to afford something makes the difference between being passive and active.
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Bromley is one of London borough in the southeast of the Greater London. Bromley has some suburbia features such as the low density and the pattern of houses. It has highly homogenuity in the origin and high rate of aging6. The relatively high rate of car owned per household and self-owned house indicate the car-dominant and stable suburban community character.
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How can we help the preservation and formation of identity in aging by means of space strategy? Older people have fewer opportunities to engage with different environments due to the loss of energy to travel to longer distance. Promoting more interfaces in the local environment will provide a solution. I would like to test different ways to foster identity formation and link the issue to spatial solutions.
What can we add in the suburb to help the residents sharing resource? As the population is estimated to increase, I think it is reasonable to propose a denser approach in Bromley. The density can also help the residents to share the resource, but the privatized and divided space make it hard to link to each other. I want to create the in-between space which fosters the exchange of activities and encourages people to share.
Social Space To study the social space, I would like to examine it by two dimensions: the social function of space and the individual social space. In Lefebvre's theory of the triad of space (1991), he defined three concepts of spaces, namely, spatial practice, representations of spaces, and representational space. In this aspect, social space is the production of activities and relationships. Based on this theory, Soja developed a similar space concept which is the third spaces (1996). According to the concept, Firstspace is a similar concept to the "abstract space" in Lefebvre's theory (Saatcioglu & Corus, 2016). It is the physical and material space that we live in in everyday life. Firstspace deals with the hierarchical order (Saatcioglu & Corus, 2016), and it creates the "geographies of privilege" (Soja, 2010) which results in the exclusion. Secondspace is the imagined space of those who try to plan the space. It is idealized and sometimes does not present the need of the inhabitants. Thirdspace is "lived space" (Soja, 1996). It is the social space that connects firstspace and secondspace, and is where the material space and ideal space interact. Thus the conflicts arise, and it represents the resistance to the dominant order. Social space contains not only the "object" but also the relationships, and it adds value through the activities of users and inhabitants.
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Firstspace and aging As firstspace is the daily life and refers to the material space, the shift in life stage will reshape the firstspace related to the person. For example, people do not need to go to the workplace anymore after they are retired. The elderly usually maintain a daily routine, so space is quite familiar. The built environment has limited accessibility for the elderly, which can be stairs, the gate, or distance. Moreover, the accessibility also has effects on the exclusion.
Secondspace and aging There is a set of spaces planned for the elderly, such as the care home, the elderly center, and the adult day program. Moreover, the equipments that help the people with functional decline can stay in the same place.
Thirdspace and aging People can use the same space at different age and in a different situation in their life. The users can keep creating new value for the place during the aging process, and they can keep finding some space that is not suitable for them anymore.
Firstspace
breakfast body wash dog walk laundry lunch dinner watching TV grocery shopping
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walk taking a bus
Senior center Visiting nurse Personal assistance Transportation Senior lunch Hospice Housekeeping Nursing home Helpline Home repair Adult day program
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workshop market cafe
studio mini shop toilet
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mini shop cafe service spot
men in sheds kitchen + dining room cafe
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studio mini shop kitchen
shared meeting room coworking
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warehouse library car-sharing office treehouse
classroom farmhouse kitchen
studio + dwelling office
green house balcony
studio + dwelling office + shop
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THIS IS THE PLACE! Liedts Space Transforming 2015, Master Design Project (Group Work)
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Liedts is a place with super diversity. The immigrants come from different countries and creat a special atmosphere here distint from other places in Brussels. The cultural backgroud influence on the way they use the space and also the commercial activities. How to deal with the difference of the culture and the segregation between men and women is the issue here.
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crossing people chatting people store closed
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place liedts is almost empty because the commerce were not opened at this early time. due to this fact the square is a 1mere place of transit where the users concentrate in the main nodes: bus stop, restaurants, night shops, bakeries and cafes.
crossing people chatting people store closed store open
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in this time gap the square becomes an active of the life of the people reaching its peak between 16:00-17:00. when all the stores are open and number of users increase gradually notably identify two main ethnic groups: arab and balkan by language and/or physical features. the groups mix on the sidewalk, north east corner and in the middle of the triangular traffic island. this is visible in the cafĂŠs and fast food restaurants. other important meeting points are the green areas under the trees.
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in non peak hours place liedts becomes less jammed. consequently the stores in place lieds become less congested due to the lack of demand.at night time the shops close and public transportation is not available. given this cirscuntance the amount of people crossing is decreased notably and there is a big density of people chatting.they are located close to nightshops which are still open during the night. moreover people are sitting mostly in the green areas around the trees or close to open night shops drinking.
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MAhInuR OzDEMIR “The Turkish society has a large contribution to the economy but is not sufficiently aware of this contribution. Bruxelles deputy Most of the people own a small market, a business, an investment... but the owners do not use the whole potential of their economic power … they do not have any trade relations with the Belgian market.” (Brussels, 05.11.2010)
zBYSzEK - M - 34 “We were cheated by almost all the employers, no matter Georgian, Bulgarian or Belgian. Usually we register Polish building worker just half of the working hours and they would often “forget” to pay the rest or say that they will give you the money later.”
FATMA - F - 36 Belgian Turk muslim born here
“My grandfather came in 1979 to work in Turkish people to access the country wit tually support the legal prostitution, sinc girls on the street, because of their anxi
AIShE - F - 34 Bulgarian Turk muslim came 2 y. ago
“ I am a Bulgarian Turk, but the Turkish m ence if I have a Bulgarian, a Turkish or a authority in their eyes immediately does
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A DYNAMIC AREA CHARACTERIZED BY ITS DIVERSITY
A YOUNG POPULATION WITH VARIOUS ORIGINS
The surroundings and Place Liedts itself are shaped by intense economical activities.
The neighbourhood is densely populated and especially by young people. Moreover, the population is composed of one third of foreigners. After the World War II, many workers’ immigrants
Place Liedts ensures the continuity of the very commercial street “Rue de Brabant”. It is also very close to the famous “Rue d’Aerschot” which concentrates most on the prostitution shops.
arrived through the North train station and settled in its surroundings. Two major communities participate to the History of this neighbourhood : the Turkish and the Moroccan. Some of them have
We can essentially find large choices of clothes and tapestry in “Rue de Brabant”. On the place, the shops mostly concerns daily needs. They have both a high activity during the day but only
been part of the surroundings for few generations whereas others just arrived. Whatever the reasons of this population shift, the neighbourhood of Brabant remains a landmark for the newcomers. Some
“Rue d’Aerschot” and several shops in the place are still lively at night. On the place, the large accessibility of the shops and the diversity of the goods are the answer to the needs of a popu-
of them are in very precarious situations : “These multiple vans parked on the Place Liedts which are used as housing for many Bulgarian undeclared workers”1 relates to an article of the Schaer-
lation with different cultural backgrounds.
beek’s website. In that case, some structures are in charge to help the people most in need. Such is the case for example of the Social Centre CPAS around Place Liedts.
A PROMISING PROJECT HIGHLIGHTED BY DIVERSITY According to RTBF (French Belgian Radio and Television Institute), “Rue de Brabant” is the third biggest commercial street of Brussels with its daily 25 000 passers-by. The large variety
DIFFERENT CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS The Place Liedts and its surroundings give evidence to a very diverse group of people. For ex-
of goods is a bait for people who come from very different areas to shop in “Rue de Brabant”. The area is very lively even if shops are required to close at least one day per week. In order to
ample, the presence of several different places of worship is explained by arrivals of immigrants who come with their families first but also with their customs and cultural heritages. An example of this is
Bar/ Casino/ Hotel
increase the commercial aspect of the area, the association that gathers the surrounding merchants requested to change this into a tourist area. A shop owner relates : “ ooe rs orscrs of cin
Groceries
seen in the early morning by a shop owner drying his carpets in the sun of the public space. Although French is the main used language in Brussels, it doesn’t allow the people to understand each other as
Shop
ioec feoe Ferinic, Gceerinry oe Nc ceerinors o rs om in “Roc oc Ber rin ”.“1 The project carried by the municipality is still in progress at the moment. It would provide more freedom concerning
Fast Food/ Rest. Hairdresses
so many different languages are spoken : Turkish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Polish, etc. But sometimes, there is really no way to communicate. That’s why, the police station of Place Liedts asked Bulgarian police
Bank/ Insurance
the opening hours and make a bigger accessibility. Some people find this project quite surprising, for example a resident relates : “There is nothing concerning tourism here! There is only
Night Shop
officers to come from Bulgaria to bring help in communicating : “Two Bulgarian and Romanian police officers cemoerery oook m re in o oe cre o cem o
Closed/ For sale
the red-light district (laughs).”2
Residential
people who sometimes can’t speak our language neither understand our practices”2 says Jean-Claude Remue, chief police of Schaerbeek.
A POPULATION APPLYING FOR WORK AT ALL COSTS This multicultural population have two speed ranges. Regarding a number of our interviews, both of them came to Belgium to escape a difficult situation in their own countries.
However, around the place, the main cultural controversy concerns women’s position in the society. It has to deal between two very different way of thinking. On one hand, the “Rue d’Aerschot”
Comercial areas ECONOMIC RISE
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The chief police of Schaerbeek, Jean-Claude Remue, relates: “Many immigrants take the money eroc in Bceg oe riok o c e oec iooin e crs eoog rs cee ioemrin crs rino r oe acrs in ce-
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ties dealing with very traditional values especially concerning the statement of women. Actually, this is an important supply for tensions in between the neighbourhood. “I don’t think it is the right place
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inr oinre ie ecs.”3 Some of them only plan a temporary stay whereas some settle down for good. On one hand, the immigrants who settled in Belgium a few generations ago gradually started a
which is a few streets down is the prostitution landmark. Prostitute women are exhibited trough window shop.” On the other hand, around Place Liedts, a big part of the population provides for communi-
Prostitution
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foe i eoecin o ieorsrss.s.”3 states a resident. Actually, most of the people that we interviewed mentioned a real discomfort about a very close proximity from the prostitution area.
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business and access to property. On the other hand, the new immigrants have to find a stable position as quickly as possible to support their needs. “Soec oinooioecin co ocrecers rs ommco ry
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newspapers headlines that highlight illegal situations. Depending on the emergency level of certain situations, it sometimes leads to law violations especially concerning employment.
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the police on the place Liedts”4, “Si rce ccok : ref of c rokce crs rec ioin eoeeco rino moin rs co rsfoe eriok ereokc ”5, “Peric L co rs : r ocrece meomorsco irininr rs o mer inieo crs officers ”6 : these
Place Liedts is lively during the day and night. During the day, many people gather around
Growth of employees salary Growth of freelance employees
the “cafés” and the shops. At night, little groups of people from the neighbourhood chat in front of food shops. Regarding our interviews, people have very different feelings about the atmosphere of
Moreover, it also concerns urbanism regulations. Indeed, a quick overview is enough to understand that most of the shops are settled into residential buildings. For example, levels
the place. Some really appreciate the multiculturalism and the dynamism : “Foreign people gather together, we create kind of a microcosm, people might like it”4 relates a resident, another says : “It is
above the shops are used as storage for goods. However most of those buildings were not designed for such heavy structural loads. The urban context and the typology of townhouses are
ecreery o acers fico, r ’rs erokc c inc g ooe ooo acery mecrrsrin ”5. On the other hand, some feel not specifically connected to the place. “I ooin’ rac rinry ioininci oin o c merics. I ioec o c rsreoin, I
ECONOMY
not respected : gardens of the residential blocks are covered with a concrete slab to use it as extensions of storages. According to our interview with the police chief Guy Meyns, these oper-
LEGEND Comercial areas
soeok rino I go riok oec.”6 said a hairdresser whereas a resident narrates : “Children from the neighooe ooo ooin’ rac rinry rsmric o merry oin c merics. cry merry in c rs ecc rino r iecr crs cinrs oinrs
Prostitution Touristic developement
ations are issues as far as they were made without any agreement of the municipality and don’t fit though to the urbanism regulations.
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and stress”7. The population’s feeling of belonging is being impacted depending on the background relation
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Article from the website of Schaebeek December 2013 / Interviews made by our team on October 2015 /
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La Capitale April 19th 2013 / 6 Headline from the belgian newspaper DH August 29th 2011 / 7 Extract of our interview with the police chief of Place Liedts Guy Meyns.
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Article from RTL February 9th2015 / 2 Interview made by our team on October 2015/ 3 Article from the website of Schaerbeek December 2013 / 4 Headline from the belgian newspaper DH June 20th 2013 / 5 Headline from the belgian newspaper
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AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AUTHORITIES “When the police station settled, if we had strongly applied the law, we would have had to close all the shops”7 related Guy Meyns. Of course, they don’t want definitive closures. That’s why they developed different strategies to regularize the shops of the place especially concerning employment and hygiene. This also has to manage counterfeiting, street dealers, and illegal situations. They have different levels of tolerance by informing and preventing first, and by controlling and sanctioning then. In order to avoid a black market, they also created a special employment contract for people with an undefined status.
of the people with the environment also. “I’e r foec gince cec rino I s ee rs rry r foec gins. Bcirorsc I irec jors foe soeok r fcs rycrers rino I re merinin ing o go riok o Roerin rs.”8 said an immigrated shop assistant. On the opposite side, another shop owner from Turkey broaches his Belgian nationality : “S inic I re oein cec, I ooin’ rac rinry meo ecers in cger ing in c Bceg rin rsoi c rys. I re mre of Beorsrscerss.”9. Finally, Jean-Claude Remue, police chief of Schaerbeek relates a real improvement lately :” Toorry, sc ino c r eors of crsc ee ger co mcomec rac ccin ecgoere z ing c e rs r orss. Foe cxample, if you walk around the place you can see less Bulgarian licence plates on cars.”10
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n the mines. At that point Belgium gave a permission to the thout a visa, if they come to work as guest workers. ... I acce the men can satisfy their needs, instead of molesting the iety. “
“Every evening Altan brings me and the other girls from the cafe to the bus stop, because it is quite unsafe; to walk on your own at night, if you are a woman.”
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men at the Bulgarian cafe where I work don’t make a differa Gipsy origin. The fact is that I come from Bulgaria and my s down, because they associate me with the prostitutes. “
“My children are in Romania, I won’t let them live here. In my hometown they can walk and play alone on the streets, here people will offer them drugs, rob them. Whit the bad influence of the social environment here they will drop out of school as lots of the kids here.“
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LAWS: REGULATION REGARDING THE IMAGE OF THE MOSQUES
INTERDICTION FOR WOMEN TO WEAR VAILS THAT COVER THEIR WHOLE BODIES
CLASH OF CULTURES
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FREE LANGUEAGE (FR. ) COURSES CITIZENSHIP COURSES SOCIAL AID FACILITIES UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE
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A DAMAGED PUBLIC SPACE On one hand, the state of the public space is compromised by the high activity of the Place itself and the surroundings. Actually, residents complain as they can’t park their cars close anymore to their dwellings. But, actually, they are not the only ones to complain : passers-by also complain about the dirtiness of the public space. In 2012, some tensions were perceived between the municipality and the company in charge of the public cleanliness. The mayor had to sign a municipal decree
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to regulate the state of the Place. “I rs ginco r eoin i mre ociecc o cinfoeic Beoxceecrs-Peomec é, c ioemrinry ecrsmoinrs ec foe c mo e i iecrine incrsrs o iecrin c s oec Peric L co rs rino rs rsoeeooino-
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variety of alcohols in the night shops. This raises the issue of safety, especially at night. In 2006, a survey was carried out to hear the feelings of residents about “The Art of living together”2. 87% of
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The municipality tries to apply different strategies to solve all those dysfunctions in order to maintain a good quality of life in the neighbourhood. Since 2000, the place has been part of several neighbourhood contracts. Those programs are made to revitalize troubled districts by allocating a
LEGEND Neughborhood contract_public cpaces
significant amount of money to develop projects during four years. Within this framework, it was decided to place a police station on the place. This decision was part of the neighbourhood contract Léon-Kessels between 2006-2009. The police station practises the Japanese concept of KOBAN which
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develops a structure of proximity. The staff comprises a multicultural team in order to answer the
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needs of a population with different backgrounds as much as possible. During our interview with the police chief Guy Meyns, he explained us that their primary focus areas only concern mobility, compli-
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ance with social laws, public cleanliness, security and prevention. This police station is on duty only during the day, and during the night it is relied by a bigger police station. To ensure citizenship, the
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authorities also decided to take action against incivility. In 2014, they set up new police regulations to strongly reprimand inappropriate behaviours in public space. Fréderic Nimal, deputy in Schaerbeek, explains that: “Ai oreery, oocrsin’ ocre s meo oinrs o ioeeoin rscinrss. c gore rs o reeos cacery oory o e ac ogc
ce reeoin oorserys.”6 From night uproars to public cleanliness, this can now lead
to fines up to 250 euros. CIVIC SOCIETY LEGEND Neughborhood contract_public cpaces
REPLIES BY THE CIVIL SOCIETY
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QUALITY OF LIFE NGO'S
Furthermore few activities are also proposed by the civil society to prevent those issues. For
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example, the organization AMOS created a teaching kit for children to avoid as much as possible
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sexism from school. There is also the project to set up citizenship lessons from the start of primary school. In addition, the social centre of the place provides help to the population concerning accommodations to prevent social insecurity. However, during our short interview with the director of the centre, we learned that it will be moving somewhere else in Schaerbeek as it is not specifically linked to the Place and its population.
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Article from the website of Schaerbeek August 19th 2013 / 2 Satisfaction survey published in 2006 / 3 Newspaper Article from RTBF (French Belgian Radio and Television Institute) July 14th 2014 / 4 Article from the Belgian newspaper La Capitale February 19th 2012 / 5 Article from the Belgian newspaper La Capitale February 15th 2015 / 6 Article from the website of Schaerbeek July
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Concept
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MASTER DESIGN PROJECT
Slices of Space functioning differently, and serving as the extension of the shops.
Breaking Big Plaza into Smaller Spaces
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Proposal Elevated path creates safer connection and car-free maket place.
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MASTER DESIGN PROJECT
Big plaza that combines multiple function including cafe, playground, bus stop, gallery, market, and more.
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POCKET PLAZA Wanhua Style Mixed-Use Architecture 2011, BS ARCH DISSERTATION
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BS ARCH DISSERTATION
As time goes by, Wanhua, the old commercial centre, has now become an old community; but when you roam around, you can find that there are many special monuments and signs of culture. People here are also more laid back and more friendly than the office people, and they long to talk to others more. What I want to create is a mixed-use type which is suitable for Wanhua and can enhance the chance of communication between the local people and foreigners.
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Longshan Temple
Hua-Si St. Night Market
Herb Alley Bo-Pi Liao
Club Street
San-Shui Market Longshan Park site
MRT Longshan Temple Station
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club entrance
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outside : stores
inside : clubs
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resident entrance
program | Living Space for Elderly stability, regular hours everyday private and safty, gain the chance to communicate, interact with others,
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visitors entrance
program | Leisure place for Elderly Recreation for the Citizen small scale, stores and vendors, second-hand, cheap, local,conventional, extend to the semioutdoor,
POCKET PLAZA
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PROFESSIONAL PROJECT
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