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DWELLING BY URBANISM Housing can help to fix the urban space
Location: Ghent, Belgium Program: Housing and urban hybridity 2020
The project is trying to recover the relation between historical identical public space with the dwellers by creating the housing system suitable for the structure of households nowadays. The relation between dwelling and urban space is the key point of the topic. The site, Meulestede, was an area that prospered due to the quick industrialization while also decaying in the 1960s when the local industry relocated.
The pedestrianized urban space is based on these three levels of publicity. The ground floor consists of the living unit with internal shared space and the space for the neighborhood, such as a small shop, common kitchen and the renovated church as a community library.
