station area fabiolalaan
GHENT _ belgium
MASTERPLAN
LIFE
The elongated area development between the railway embankment and Koningin Fabiolalaan
_ part of the overall project Ghent Sint-Pieters station area.
_ 3 sub zones with own sub-projects
_ a coherent development with a significant leap in both scale and function compared to its surroundings
_ focus on emotional and visual connections
_ focus on creating a ‘thick’ boundary with the city
_ focus on identity and coherence, with a strategy to introduce the ‘human scale’
_ focus on the building as the basic unit, where each location consists of one building or a juxtaposition of up to three buildings
PEOPLE
diversity of people
_ meeting
_ traveling
_ relaxing
_ working
SPACE
site _ 3,5ha
development:
_ mixed-use development (zone A): +-90.000m²
_ residential buildings
_ commercial buildings
_ green corridor stretching from Citadelpark to Blaarmeersen
FAR: 2,6
client _ NMBS, Infrabel, De Lijn, the Flemish Region and the city of Ghent
Lieve De Cock (°Eurostation, now at LiPS)
in collaboration with _ POLO
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