Location
Mission
Program
Year
Client
Team
Size
Status
Liège l Belgium
Master plan, urban and landscape design
Metropolitan regeneration.
Multi-modal mobility hub, metropolitan logistic area for economic activities linked to agriculture, sustainable food and short supply chains, regeneration of the existing neighbourhood
2022 - 2024
Ville de Liège
Architect & urban planner:
LAB705 | BAHG Architecture
Engineers: Ecorce
160 ha
Completed
The Droixhe–Bressoux district lies on the plain of the Meuse valley, between the monumental river landscape and the inhabited hillsides of Jupille-sur-Meuse and Bressoux. To the North-East of Liège, near Monsin Island, it forms an economic zone framed by motorway, railway and neighboring residential areas, and is identified in the City of Liège’s Territorial Project as one of six strategic metropolitan development hubs.
Today, the area is undergoing profound change: Bressoux station, the new tram line and new cross-river link, the park-and-ride facility, the new International Fair hall and the conversion of the motorway into an urban boulevard launch a new life cycle and a broad social and economic transition. A future service hub on the tram–station axis, and the transformation of the Marché Matinal into an agri-food hub focused on short supply chains will drive development.
Through the master plan the future spatial structure of the district is clarified and consolidated around four landscape and urban figures (Gare 360° et place multimodale, Parc nourricier, Promenade de Droixhe, Parc du chemin de fer) that reorganise the space to introduce new functions and to increase diversity within the district, and to experiment with new architectural forms.
An environmental charter highlights the concrete opportunities they offer to support the district in a fairer transition towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and towards a new model of economic growth decoupled from resource use, as advocated for Europe by the Green Deal.