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Ouvrir l'espace : La liaison verte by MSA et Ney & Partners Engineering
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The exhibition Ouvrir l'espace, organised by ICA at the Namur Cultural Centre from 3 April to 5 May 2023, invites visitors to discover six outstanding architectural and landscape projects for open and public spaces. These projects, from across Wallonia and Brussels, have been selected for the diversity of their approaches and responses. They form shared places and create convivial spaces in which to build community life and learn about citizenship and working together. They also help to enrich biodiversity in the built environment, contribute to soil permeability and, last but not least, ensure that everyone is present and represented outside the home.
As part of this exhibition, the ICA has selected six projects featured in the book Architectures Wallonie-Bruxelles Inventaires #4 Inventories 2020-2023, in line with its manifesto Vers une démarche architecturale régénérative: "Considering public space as a necessary element in the rebalancing of all the components of the ecosystem, ensuring the co-presence and promoting synergies between the various elements that make it up: nature, culture, fauna, flora and human lifestyles".
- Point 29 : «To make architecture (here: the built and non-built environment) a potential vehicle for exchanges and encounters. It is responsible for links between people and social groups, between human and non-human environments.»
- The liaison verte in Ixelles, designed by MSA et Ney & Partners Engineering, creates a new pedestrian-cyclist link between several streets and the esplanade of the European Parliament. Each of these sites has different forms of development: a pedestrian street, water buffer zones, a new urban staircase, a pedestrian-cyclist route on a railway embankment. For example, between rue du Sceptre and rue Gray, the new link takes the form of a staircase. Rue des Deux Ponts and Rue des Artisans incorporate stormwater basins fed directly by rainwater from the street's roofs, and at the same time relieve the drainage system at the bottom of the valley.