Séminaire Happy New Year 2011 "Tours et densité", Bruxelles Yesterday I was at the seminar "Torres and density " that served as the book launch and exhibition on the evolution of building towers in Europe. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe seminar was to present the vision of other European cities in response to the trend of recent years to urban exodus. Several governments present at the conference explained how they have avoided (or try) the upper-middle classes with university courses to move to the periphery, leaving the center for the elderly and poor.
This problem is quite widespread in Europe, has for years installed in Brussels. What is done is that, compared with expected population growth, suggests courses of action to make Brussels a city attractive and well equipped to not force the newcomers to settle in the periphery. Therefore, the issue of density.
That was the basic idea. But as the current major project in Brussels, which must be the only one in which there is a consensus (which is difficult in Belgium), is the European Commission focused in the Rue de la Loi
, the symposium has spoken mainly of the towers in response to a concentration of office use.
Many attendees have tried in vain to recall a presentation by Bernard Decleva and (my master teacher) made in the morning, on the 3 models underlying project the entire city plan (compact, diffuse, global) to bring back the cultural issue of the conference to other ways to create density. But that was not the issue. Everything had turned to the Commission draft, which is already determined as such with the towers and public spaces intermediate Christian de Portzamparc.
Incidentally, your project seems interesting, and quite compact with a vision of what the city should be compact, but with room for several small parks and aerated. The problem is that once again, with regard to foreign examples in Brussels there is no single view of project. Projects are under way, and I'm getting my little foot timidly inside ... to see it go away. I'll tell you.
