SITE RESEARCHCLT BRUSSELS

To narrow down my search, I looked at building sites that are owned by the Community Land Trust Brussels - a new player in the city's a ffordable housing market - who have already collaborated with Communa and would certainly be open for a socially oriented temporary intervention.

Community Land Trust Brussels has many sites, where the acquisition had happened already, but the construction of the homes have not yet started due to financial issues or due to its complexity and its longerlasting nature (e.g. long participative planning process). Therefore these plots can remain empty for many years, sometimes even for a decade, which is a long enough period for a temporary project.

According to the aerial photos and the website of CLT Brussels, currently there are 3 empty plots owned by CLT Brussels.

Comparing the sites we can see that they all have very similar geometric characteristics (long narrow plots perpendicular to the street), with one or two fairly high firewalls on their longer sides (offering potential structural support).

Since the design project on the first site is the one that is still in its initial phase, and on the other two the construction is about to start, I decided to continue working with this one.

On the longer term, it would be also interesting to see whether this urban tactic could be implemented on the building sites of other land owners, or, even in other cities and countries. Furthermore, CLT Brussels is currently working together with Communa in a recently purchased building, where Communa is organising community activities until the refurbishment of the building would start.

The amework of the project starts to take shape as we combine the time-line of Communa and CLT. We can see, that the assembling of the temporary building should not take longer than 1-3 month, so even in the worst-case scenario, there would be a 2-year-long period of tenancy.

Feasibilitystudy

Landacquisition

EMPTY

Assemblingtheprojectteam

Designandplanning

Construction

SITE 1. SITE 2.

SITE 3.

Accommodatingthedwellings

Supportforco-ownership

TIME LINE - REALIZATION OF A CLT BUILDING