The scenography by Bovenbouw Architectuur shows a piece of urban landscape on a scale of 1/15. The architects explore a linear, winding landscape of a typical Flemish urban environment at table height. More than 50 different architectural projects from the past 20 years form the building blocks of the model. As a visitor you move through the model landscape and discover the friction between city and architecture in Flanders in a powerful and unprecedented way. The strong love-hate relationship that buildings and the built environment have in Flanders has been a source of irritation and energy for decades. This scenography portrays how typological peculiarities, differences in scale, radical alignment and functional mixing keep the fire of Flemish architecture burning. But the manner of exhibiting also corrects the isolated, formalistic view of architecture from Flanders. The model places Flemish architecture back into its natural habitat, allowing the interpretation to deepen and to sharpen the debate about the relationship between architecture and its conditions.
