The triangle Project - Visual integration analysis Brussels

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THE TRIANGLE PROJECT

A DIACHRONYC READING

CORSO METODI QUANTITATIVI PER LANALISI DEL TERRITORIO 2011/2012

VALERIA BALLERIN, VINCENZO PATERNO

ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA - PROF. PAOLO GIORDANO


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INTRODUCTION

The atelier whose project we are focusing for this analisys worked in a col-

lective effort do devolop a urban project in the area of Anderlecht, an area

in southwest Brussels.

The area, roughly in shape of a triangle, is a former industrial district along

the Brussels Canal and is surrounded by densely populated streets, inhab-

ited mainly by foreings.

An important building lies in the center, the former Abbatoir now the

biggest food market in Brussels, both retail and wholesale. The original

19th century structure has been surrounded during the decades by many

wharehouses and use large gated areas for parking and temporary mar-

ket. This is peculiar of the whole Triangle, both from human scale and plan

is felt as a big unaccessible void.

The aim of the atelier was infact to liberate this space and donate it to the

surrounding city enriched by new services and reshaped in a more open

way. This was done with a work of selective demolition and a redesign of

the edges, leaving the center void for public activities.


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MOBILITY


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EXISTING SITUATION


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EXISTING PUBLIC SPACES


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STATIONS

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

VISUAL INTEGRATIONACTUAL SITUATION


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STATIONS

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

VISUAL INTEGRATIONSITUATION AFTER PROJECT


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EXCLUSION BEFORE

view from top of the site

view of the area of the market warehouses

access of the markets area from the Canal

access to the markets area from the underground station


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PERMEABILTY AFTER

public transit through a green passage

public transit through passages in a buildt limit

public transit through light architectural devices

Bird eye view of the Triangle after the intervention on edges and core


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VISUAL INTEGRATION BEFORE

CENTER-WEST BRUSSELS


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VISUAL INTEGRATION AFTER

CENTER-WEST BRUSSELS


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VISUAL INTEGRATION

PROJECT AREA


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VISUAL INTEGRATION

A COMPARISON BEFORE AND AFTER THE PROJECT


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VISUAL INTEGRATION

A COMPARISON BEFORE AND AFTER THE PROJECT


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Center-west Brusssels

- Vsual integration average value

without project


with project

- Relative Variation range

Project Area


without project


with project

- Relative Variation range

2.97

3.19

199.9

3.10

3.35

172.41

VISUAL INTEGRATION

RELEVANT DATAS


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After the analisys with DepthMap we tested the design aim of the atelier, and both data

and maps suggested us that was successful.

The comparision of the maps shows how the surrounding urban fabric is infulenced by the

project, and what kind of integration we nd in the developed area. The crossing analisys

of the parameters of Visual Integration shows how the grows of integration at the city scale

seems to be signicant being on a average value of 0.22 from 2.97 to 3.19. On a smaller

scale, using the smallest rectangle around the site the grows value is 0.25 from 3.10 to

3.35. The average as a parameter was veried with the standard deviation variation, that

shows a very limited variation on a basic standard deviation always less of 1.

On the design side the area that were chosen to accomodate transport facilities proved to

be mainly the most integrated, together with the void that assume a relevant position on

the urban scale. As a futher consideration is that the southern part of the area was less

modied in his urban fabric but just at an architectonic scale, and for this reason the inte -

gration is almost unchanged.

CONSIDERATIONS


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