The Chora project
of the Place Saint-Josse in Brussels develops around the concept
of limit and safety. The site encloses four types of speed (car,
bicycle, pedestrian moving and stop) whose borders were not materialized
at the urban level. The place of market was not very user-friendly
and them window displays were not organized there. The visual relationship
with the church was practically non-existent and the pavement on
the side of the market place did not present a pleasant and safe
movement.
The project
proposes the adjustment of the place and the creation of a permeable
limit using an light structure. This structural support includes
the systems of indication and can be used as data support.
A bearing stucture
organizes the place of market (window displays) and creates a edge
compared to the roadway system. Into final a house of information
and assistance opens for which the need appeared during our discussions
with the social and economic actors of the district. At the higher
level of this house an independent cafétaria is in visual
relation privileged with the frontage of the church (this one having
a new " side square "). A arborescent surface on the top
of the window display (whose trees get to the user the feeling to
walk " in " their summit) dominates the place and is in
privileged relation with the tree structure, creating a new vegetable
horizon.
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