Brussels Urban Recycling: Industrial Buildings as Resource
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[1] Université Catholique de Louvain
Université Catholique de Louvain
Arrondissement de Nivelles, Bélgica
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- Localización: Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers, Vol. 3, 2018 (ProductCity: the city as a product / Manuel Garcia-Ruiz (ed. lit.)), ISBN 978-972-8048-31-0, págs. 3-27
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
As well as other European post-industrial metropolis, Brussels has inherited an important industrial building stock. Most of this stock is located along Brussels industrial valley and is made of warehouses, workshops and factories fully integrated with the surrounding dense urban fabric. This old mixed urban fabric, occupied by a mix of functions including small and medium economic activities, is undergoing an intense urban mutation for three reasons: a devaluated property land, a strategic central location and the heterogeneity of medium and large buildings and plots. Addressed from a spatial perspective, productive buildings integrated with the surrounding dense urban fabric can be seen as a resource for new space and projects. To address the gaps of detailed territorial and morphological knowledge about this resource, the paper presents the first results of typo-morphological analysis and multi-level representations of Brussels’ industrial mixed urban fabric.
