For two seasons deSingel and the VAi (Flemish Architecture Institute) are offering eight young architectural firms a platform on which to present their ideas on architecture, urban planning and landscape design. The architects have been commissioned to provide solutions to pressing social issues and intellectually challenging questions in the course of the design process.
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The research carried out by MikeViktorViktor Architects focuses on the design of a new coastal city on the North Sea in 2070. As a result of climate change, increasing population and various crises (energy and other) in 2070 a new coastline will be formed that incorporates both housing and natural and constructed coastal defences. In 2070 the Belgian coast as it is in 2012 will become a single new city with a new structure of land division, a compact residential city with generous collective public spaces. This city will be surrounded by a natural but managed landscape of dunes and water and will be self-reliant when it comes to energy and food production.
For this urban design, MikeViktorViktor Architects are starting out from various visions of spatial planning, architecture, habitation, recreation, food production, etc. The second point of departure is the 'future commons': making land, water, air and raw materials available to everyone and safeguarding them for mankind in the future.
This research problem is a sub-assignment from 'The Future Commons 2070', a project by the Magnificent Surroundings Collective. This spatial and artistic initiative presented a possible future organisation of the Belgian coastal area for the year 2070.