Ferme Maximilien-Sur-Senne
Transformation of a parking and modernist slab to an educational farm
the existing Farm Maximilian. Will move upper north in the same area. The existing farm becomes a spot for the neigboorhood.
the new farm comes here, in and above (duplex project) an existing parking and slab of modernist ensamble, facing the park Maximilian.
01. the old site of the farm (future spot for the neigboorhood)
02. the new farm
black and white : the area of the landscape project by OLM
the project on the site of the existing farm
model of the project on that site
the existing situation and buildings, maintained in the project
the project for the new farm (existing parking)
existing view from the park Maximilian towards the slab (and nowadays parking behind). The project will face a park with quite nice trees
and inside, it’s indeed a parking… A farm here, really ?
cutting openings in the roof of the existing parking (one for a patio, one for a double height under the greenhouse)
the existing situation above the slab and parking (where the greenhouse comes)
Ferme Maximilien-Sur-Senne
Transformation of a parking and modernist slab to an educational farm
Year: 2020
Status: Ongoing
Program: Socio-cultural equipment
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Budget: 2500000 exc. VAT
Collaboration: HBAAT
Client: Bruxelles Environnement / Bruxelles Mobilité / Ville de Bruxelles
Stability: Util
Landscape: OLM
The Brussels “Quartier Nord” (around Brussels North trainstation) will undergo a profound change and will experience the largest redevelopment of its public space since the 1960s. The Parc Maximilien, which extends from the city centre to the Beco basin , surrounding huge collective housing units and includes more than 9 hectares of public space, will be completely redesigned into a continuous and strong open space with a clear identity and high social and spatial permeability. Among the important issues at stake in this project : the opening of the Senne river, a new project for the integration of the Maximilien Farm (Ferme Maxi Mille Liens) , the redevelopment of Boulevard Bolivar as well as the redevelopment of the Maximilien Park itself. A complex and ambitious mission from a technical, urban and landscape point of view, in a neighbourhood that suffered too many top-down big projects (Manhattan project,..).
OUEST and HBAAT are developing together the “architectural” aspects of the project, within the large team led here by the landscape designers of OLM, Paris.