Station neighborhoods are prominent meeting places and urban anchors
within a city. They are potential impulses which can activate cities
towards a stronger metropolis. There where the heartbeats of arriving
and departing, sojourning and saying farewell, the skyline is the
silhouette of a station’s neighbourhood, a fact that stays in your
memory as a traveller.
Architects: Crepain Binst Architecture, ARCHI+I
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Area: 40,000 sqm
Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture + ARCHI+I
Project Manager: Luc Reyn (CBA), Thomas Dierickx (ARCHI I)
Collaborators: Thomas Cols, Ellen VAnhole, Luk Mertens
Engineering: VK Engineering
General Contractor: Interbuild nv
As a connecting link between the station and the County Hall five
natural stone spaces will be placed along the track. This range of
office blocks stands like colour-dots on atop a glass access plinth in
dialogue with the passers-by and forms an architectural connection with
the County Hall. The thematics of various window openings and eves
breach the monotonous character of the typological range and forms, in
that sense, an answer to the overlying urban morphology.
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