narrative

AWB 2010-2020

In 2020, Architecture Workroom Brussels celebrated its 10th anniversary. This was a good opportunity to look back on a decade of working on practice innovation in architecture and urbanism. In this overview, we present 11 projects, one for each year of work from 2010 to 2020. It shows the range of themes and contexts within which we have developed our expertise. Through cultural production, policy support and design research, Architecture Workroom Brussels puts new issues on the agenda of design practice, a search for a positive impact on the transformation of our living environment. 

The accompanying video portraits illustrate the partnerships and forms of collaboration with designers, policymakers, experts and social actors that have helped shape our operation. Year after year, the community of practice that together makes space for accelerating social transitions grew.
2010 - Building for Brussels
10 years Architecture Workroom: 2010, Building for Brussels
Building for Brussels guide-EN
2011: Towards visionary housing production
10 years AWB, 2011: Towards visionary housing production
Naar een visionaire woningbouw
2012: Parckdesign — GARDEN
10 years AWB, 2012: Parckdesign - GARDEN
Parckdesign Visitors Guide
2013: Open Space Platform
10 years Architecture Workroom, 2013: Open Space Platform
De open ruimte werken
2014: Atelier Brabantstad
10 years Architecture Workroom, 2014: Atelier Brabantstad
Reweaving the Urban Carpet, publication
2015: Gent Muide Meulestede
10 years Architecture Workroom, 2015: Gent Muide Meulestede
Een agenda voor Muide Meulestede morgen
2016: Atelier Brussels – Productive Metropolis
10 years AWB, 2016: Atelier Brussels Productive Metropolis
A Good City Has Industry, Visitor Guide, 2016. Visitor guide from A Good City Has Industry, with ten rules of thumb for building the productive city.    
2017: Kortrijk 2025
10 years AWB, 2017: Kortrijk 2025
Kortrijk 2025. De stad die we kunnen willen, publication, 2018. In Kortrijk, we organised an ambitious participative project together with the city council, in which hundreds of citizens jointly decided the future of their city. The city's many abandoned industrial buildings are assigned a new purpose to accommodate the urban economy of the future.     
2018: You Are Here - Pilot Projects Desealing
10 years AWB, 2018: You Are Here Desealing Pilot Program
You Are Here, documentary in the context of Bap!, 2018 There is a continuing need for productive settings to explore alternative strategies and methods and to bridge the missing link between initiatives in the field and ambitious goals on paper. In the former WTC 1 tower in the Brussels North Quarter, a whole floor was made available for temporary use between June and December 2018. We set up the twenty-third floor as the ultimate physical in-between space: an inspiring work exhibition with the work in progress of Dutch and Belgian practices, work sessions, guided tours, public debates and lectures gathered more than ten thousand actors. The participating actors experienced this collective workplace as a productive incubator or joint innovation platform. 
2019: Air for Schools
10 years AWB, 2019: Air for Schools
Results of workshop 3 'Charles Quint'
2020: Take Care!
10 years AWB, 2020: Take Care!

Credits

Interviews on the occasion of Architecture Workroom’s 10th anniversary.
Interview and production: Els Vervloesem and Lies De Meyer
Copy editing: Joeri De Bruyn (Public Space)
Montage: Jonathan Ortegat
Music: Wild Wild Ambient Boys

2010
Interviewee: Nathanaëlle Baës-Cantillon (grue.)
Client: Brussels Capital Region
Coproduction: BOZAR
Curator exhibition: Architecture Workroom Brussels
Graphic design exhibition: Prem Krishnamurthy and Chris Wu (Wkshps)
Exhibition architecture: V+ 
Images: Jeroen Verrecht

2011
Interviewee: Dirk Somers (Bovenbouw Architects)
Client: Team Flemish Government Architect
Images: Stefanie De Clercq, Bovenbouw Architects

2012
Interviewee: Eva Pfannes (OOZE Architects)
Client: Brussels Environment, Brussels-Capital Region
In collaboration with: Atelier le Balto and Eric Troussicot
Designers Sourche de Friche: Marjetica Potrc & OOZE Architects
Images: OOZE Architects

2013
Interviewee: Griet Celen (Vlaamse Landmaatschappij) 
Client: Vlaamse Landmaatschappij
In collaboration with: Bovenbouw Architects
Images: Tim Van de Velde, Bovenbouw Architects

2014
Interviewee: Dirk Sijmons (H+N+S Landscape Architects)
Clients: IABR, BrabantStad, Waterschappen Noord-Brabant 
In collaboration with: Floris Alkemade Architect, LOLA Landscape Architects
Images: Erik van der Burgt

2015
Interviewee: Evelyne Deceur and Karolien Lecoutere (City of Ghent) 
Clients: Government of Flanders, City of Ghent, local residents
In collaboration with: Endeavour
Images: Sis Pillen

2016
Interviewee: Mark Brearley (architect and factory owner, London)
Client: Brussels Capital Region, Flemisch Government (Omgeving, OVAM)
Coproduction: IABR, BOZAR
Images: Bas Bogaerts

2017
Interviewee: Brecht Nuyttens (City of Kortrijk)
Client: City of Kortrijk
In collaboration with: Tractebel, Wim Rasschaert, Michiel Dehaene, 51N4E
Images: Gerald Van Rafelghem, Tony Decruyenaere

2018
Interviewee: Liesl Vanautgaerden (Departement Omgeving)
Client: Flemish Government, Department of Environment, Spatial Development
Images: Tim van De Velde, Bob Van Mol

2019
Interviewee: Annekatrien Verdickt (Filter Café Filtré, Architecture platform Terwecoren Verdickt)
Coproduction: Filter Café Filtré Atelier, Architectuurplatform Terwecoren Verdickt
Images: Filter Café Filtré

2020
Interviewee: Griet Roets (UGhent)
Initiators: The Urban Academy, Welfare, VIPA, LUCAS, Flemish Government Architect Team  
Images: Sien Verstraeten