Op vrijdag 14 december 2012 organiseert de vakgroep ARCH van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel een studienamiddag over hoe op een eigentijdse manier omgegaan kan worden met de pakhuizen en opslagplaatsen die deel uitmaken van het industriepatrimonium. Met als sprekers Jens Aerts, Sara Wermiel en Hans Bonke, en projectpresentaties van Kanaal Site in Wijnegem, Cheval Noir in Brussel (L’Escaut architects) en Antwerp Comptoir Sucrier (Verdickt & Verdickt architecten).
Lees verder in het Engels:
Warehouses are a valuable part of Brussels’s economic and architectural heritage. They are a distinctive building type and materialize the city’s commercial history. Yet as an architectural typology, warehouses have received only limited attention. The surviving historical warehouses are very vulnerable to destruction and inappropriate alterations. Relatively few historical warehouses remain intact. And many stand in obsolete industrial and commercial zones where future development will be channeled.
This past spring and summer, the Department of Architectural Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel started a project to identify and understand Brussels' Warehouses . To present and discuss this research, and to consider warehouses in various contexts, a study day will be offered on the 14th of December 2012.