Architectural
Days

10  19 
november 2023

III. Ceremony

Ceremony, or spaces for shared rituals and celebration: Recyclart, Rasquinet park – visit-exchanges with the public, Porte de Ninove Park, Open production hall for BC Materials.

Moments of collective celebration are generative of cohesive and inclusive social groups. They are the backbone of collective identity and can play a strong role in dealing with the most important moments of life. They are the acts which bind us and create group out of a sum of individuals. However, ceremony need not imply blind adherence to outdated acts of age-old institutions such as state, religion, patriarchy. Recyclart is a space of collective celebration around music, arts and culture, however it has none of the rigidity of the museum institution, preferring a highly adaptable and unpretentious spatial structure and refusing to embody a monolithic understanding of culture. Rasquinet Park, on the site of an old bicycle pedal manufacture, offers a shelter to the inhabitants of a very diverse neighbourhood in dire need of opportunities for collective moments to exchange and coexist. Porte de Ninove Park similarly offers spaces for social gathering while embodying collective crisis management by exposing water infiltration in case of excess rainfall. Thus facing the climate crisis becomes a collective ritual of survival. The Open Production Hall for BC Materials offers both new forms of rituals, as it scenographies the ballet of construction materials arriving to Brussels via the canal, as well as a radical space for old rituals.

I. Life

II. Education

IV. Love

V. Death

© Baukunst
  • Project nominated for the Brussels Architecture Prize
  • Sustainable Architecture
  • New in town
  • Agency visit
  • Partner