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NEERPEDE’s AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

Mathilde MORIN MA1 Kristel RODARO MA1

Juliana VONGSAVATH BA3 Studio space speculationJune 2015

What?

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Enhance the image of Neerpede by offering a new qualitative public space linked to the local producers & the valorisation of their productions and the open landscape of the site.

SituationPajottenland & Brussels

Pajottenland

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Neerpede is one of the biggest green area of and the last agricultural area of Brussels. This area is situated between the city and the Pajottenland, a flamish agricultural region.

Type of cropsMeadow

Forages

Grains

Industrial cultures

Fruits

NurseryVegetables

Potatoes

NeerpedeAgricultural area of brussels

Pajottenland

Neerpede

brussels

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In the past Neerpede was a part of the pajottenland which has been connected to Région Bruxelles Capitale. That’s why this region is mainly agricultural. Only the Erasme area is an industrial part connected to the city.

Neerpedebadly connected to the city

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Neerpede is separated to the city by the ring and badly connected to the city by public transports. Indeed, the tram stops before the ring and the bus doesn’t go trough Neerpede.

Neerpede& access by public transports

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Here we can see that the Neerpde area is not crossed by any public transport. The De Lijn line connect brussels to the pajottenland without passing through Neerpede area.

Neerpede’s local producers & agricultural potential

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In the pajottenland and Neerpede, we can find several local producers with diverse products but quite isolated and not well known by the public.

Neerpede

Public transports

Cooperative

Neerpede’s Cooperativeconcept

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They can’t compete with the massive production of Bruxelles (Cora, Carrefour,…). That’s why our idea is to regroup the local producers in the same place with a better accessibility by public transports, so it’s better connected to the city. So we create a Cooperative of local producers to valorise local production.

Intermediaries

Producers

Distributors

Consumers

ImportationExportation

Purchase center

Wholesaler

Market Horeca Grosserystories

Supermarket Medias

Short distribution channel

Long distribution channel

Neerpede’s CooperativeWhy

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By this concept we allow the distribution to be transformed from a long distribution channel, that our society is mostly base on, to a short distribution channel, so the product directly go from the producer to the consumer.

Neerpede’s Cooperativestrategic choice

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So we wanted our cooperative to be centralized to the farms and accessible to the farmers. The proximity of several public transport was also very important for the connection to the city.

Neerpede’s Cooperativestrategic choice

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Cycling network

Recreative Cycling road

Thematic road of Breughel

Green Walk of Brussels

Pedestrian Network

Equestrian Network

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we also wanted to be located in connection with the existing walking and biking path, and especially to the «green walk» of brussels, which is an other way to be connected to the city.

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Neerpede’s CooperativeOpen Landscape

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Finally, the view offered by the beautiful landscape was also a very important point to feel connected with it. So we wanted to use to topography in order to create a real panoramic point over the Neerpede Valley.

Neerpede’s CooperativeSite

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All those demands, we decided to place our cooperative on this site. A new housing project will be built soon and it was for us a new opportunity. In fact, we were curious to experience the interaction between the two programmes.

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TAccessibilityby foot to the pede valley & the tram

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Here we can see the sequences in the walk from the Tram Stop to our site. The idea is to show the interest of the walk with the cooperative as an end.

AccessibilityFarmer’s access

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Here we can see the centrality of our site and how it can be easily reach by the road.

Neerpede’s CooperativeDevelopment

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First, we placed our project next to the housing, but it created a strong division between those two programs.

neerpede’s Cooperativedevelopment

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So we decided to criticize more this new housing project and we realize that we could use some of their remaining space to intergrate our project and put some collective gardens in it The neighbourhood would become more like a community housing.

Playground

Neerpede’s cooperativedrawing the public space Open landscape

views over neerpede valleyqualitative Public spaces

programmatic diversitynew image for the neighbourhood

Market hall

Recycling

Animal farm

Nursery

Restauration

Bars

Playground

pharmacy

supermarket

Bike atelier

Info

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Animal farm

The Public lane connect s both sides of the parcel. By sequences, it assures a connection between functions and spaces. This walk, spine of the plan, guides visitors through the site. Three squares are connected to it: L’esplane at the entry of the market hall, La place du marché in the centre of the housing and la plaine de jeux at the end of it. This lane is punctuated by gathering points, recreation places, shopping areas... There a mix of programs all the walk trough the site.

ViewsOpen landscape, passerelle & market hall

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The view was also a second line of work of the project. The landscape was kept open at the maximum , the passerelle was built as a panoramic point on all the Neerpede Valley and the Market Hall was design to be open to the view.Everything is designed to offer the landscape to the visitor. L’esplanade is also an other view point. But it was design to be so much more than that. It’s also a gathering point, the space given to visitors when they enter the site. It’s a platform between the Open Market and the housing part by connecting the first square, L’Esplanade, to the public lane.

Qualitative public spaceMarket square

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The Market square mainly is a restoration place with a lot of restaurants, bars... It can be related to a village square for the activity which is developped. It is also the main place of the housing where you can meet your friends to drink a beer.

Qualitative public spacePublic place

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The public space is sequenced: there are open spaces, squares, tiny streets but also a sales parts, a recreation part and a restoration part. All the public space is punctuated by little shop or facilities which enhance the different sequences.

Qualitative public spaceYouth esplanade

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the youth esplanade was design in connection with the nursery. It was think as a space for everyone, from children to teenagers. This place is the playground area for the neighbourhood.

Qualitative public spacepathways

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The main pathways lead the way trough the new neighbourhood.

Flows

food

waste

traffic

energy

Water

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the different flows were a strong basis for the drawing of the cooperative. What is going in, what’s going out? Different techniques set in place, such as recycling, methanisation, water recuperation etc reduce the in- and outcome of flows and enhance integrated flows on the parcel.

water recuperation

retail

recycling

edible garden

open landscape view

food

waste

traffic

energy

Water

water recuperation

retail

recycling

edible garden

open landscape view

food

waste

traffic

energy

Water

MArket hallCentralisation of the flows

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the market hall has a central position in the flow analysis. It’s linked with nearly every flow passing on the parcel. It has a regulation role. The presence of the transformation zone next to the market hall allows less transports and more visibility and «visit» on the production chains.

references

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Compilation & analysis

FOOD PORT - OMA

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The FoodPort combines a zigzag of functions including an urban farm, processing center, coffee roastery, and juicery. It will also feature a recycling facility, edible garden, food-truck plaza, community kitchen, market, and educational center, as well as ample public space, including an amphitheater. A Southern-Indiana-based company also plans to open a biodiesel facility where in-house food waste will be turned into methane gas.The Food Port acts as a catalyst to activate the surrounding neighborhoods, exemplifying one of the complex urban relationships between architecture and food that our studio is investigating.

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Production : farm, collective garden, orchard

Office - info, library

Education - community kitchen, playground

Transformation - washing, stock, transformation

Selling - cafe, shops, supermarket

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La Boqueria de Barcelone

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The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria is a large public market in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and one of the city’s foremost tourist landmarks, with an entrance from La Rambla. The market has a very diverse selection of goods.

There is aoso a Culinary Classroom where there are fans and professionals in the kitchen, craftsmen and businesses developed. In the Classroom courses combine theory and practice. They talk about the variety and origin of products, cooking techniques, preparation of conservation ... of simple or sophisticated menus, culinary tradition and innovation ...

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FOODMET

This market will house 45 stores exclusively for the sale of food. The entire commercial space is on the ground floor. As for the roof of the building, there will be an ‘Urban Farm’ to be used for the cultivation of various vegetables and other plants that will then be sold in the markets. The construction of the food hall will provide the opportunity to ride on the roof up to 800 m² of greenhouses for crops under glass. Furthermore, a restaurant on the roof will host visitors who want to taste the homegrown vegetables in savory dishes. Abattoir wants to outsource the operation of this ‘Urban Farm’ and restaurant to potentially interested third parties.

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PARKFARM - Parkdesign 2014

FARMPARCK is the first chapter of the evolving Tour & Taxis park. A new model for a public space combining the char-acteristics of a park and farmland will be put to the test. In the FARMPARCK, the neighbourhoods’ farmers/inhabitants and artists selected within the framework of Parckdesign, will welcome you in the installations created there. They offer visitors the chance to take part in a series of activities and to enjoy a picnic hamper, or just a cup of coffee, tea or a glass of wine, in the FarmHouse.

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FARMHOUSE - kitchen, info,

collective garden

bread oven

animal farm

table with equipments and aromathic plants

Waste treatment of dry toilets

hives

mushroom, crickets, flowers culture

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FRAC - Lacaton et Vassal

The project creates a double of the halle, of the same dimension, attached to the existing building, the halle AP2.The new building juxtaposes delicately without competing nor fading.The halle AP2 will remain a completely available space, which can work either with the FRAC, in extension of its activi-ties, (exhibitions,...) or independently to welcome public events (concert, fairs, shows, circus, sport) and which enriches the possibilities of the area.The project so creates an ambitious public resource, of flexible capacity, which allows work at several scales from everyday exhibitions to large-scale artistic events, of regional but also european and international resonance, which consolidates the redevelopment of the port of Dunkerque.

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public bridge

exhibition room

dark room

Forum

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The Paleisbrug - Benthem Crouwel Architects

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The Paleisbrug is a raised park and pedestrian and cycle bridge in one. The bridge forms a 250 metre-ling link across the railway and is in line with the views.Weather-proof steel Plants, trees, paving, furniture and lighting have been integrated in folded sheets of weather-proof steel. The rusty colour of this steel is characteristic for the Paleisbrug, and this kind of metal can be left exposed.A drip feed watering system with detection has been installed in the flower beds on the bridge. The discharge from the planters is fitted with an additional overflow pipe, so that the plants will never receive too much water. In the evenings, the plants, benches and paths are lit up by LED lighting, which means the bridge is a pleasant area even after sunset. Solar collector In order to be able to keep the bridge free from ice during the winter, Benthem Crouwel looked for a sustainable solution for the use of floor heating: the Paleisbrug act as a giant solar collector during the summer. The floor heating/solar collector is connected to a heat/cold storage unit. During the summer, the bridge retrieves more heat from the bridge than is needed during the winter and supplies the surrounding district with energy.

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