the Beauty of Ordinary

the Beauty of Ordinary: Renovation of three industrial buildings in Anderlecht

Zheng, Yaying (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor)
Lafeber, J.W. (mentor)
Hachez, A.A.M.G.M.J. (mentor)
Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor)
Plomp, H. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2020-11-09

The site of the project is in Anderlecht, Brussels. The design proposal including two parts: urban proposal and architectural proposal. For the urban renewal, I re-allocated the arrangement considering the programs, the new buildings groups follow their counterpart one by one, several inner courtyards acting as the spine of the site, connecting those groups. The architectural proposal is a manifesto of how it is possible to treat old houses. The three adjacent industrial buildings become my design target. I keep most of the ordinary architecture elements we could found in this task as the spolia. The programs have transformed from industrial space to a community center including a local food market and a daycare center, in between would also be an inner courtyard enclosed by two small pavilions.

Courtyard
Renovation
Spolia

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Student theses

master thesis

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