Melopee School: Diverse and Extensive

Energy and sustainability, Middle Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms, XDGA

Belgium, Educational Program, Ghent, Leisure, Multiscale approach, Performative Envelope, Playground, Project, Urban planning, Waterfront

In the harbor area, a narrow stretch of land along a dock is freed from port activities. A very simple ‘chop stick’ urban plan is developed by O.M.A. in which green open pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to offer a notion of centrality to the linear plan, a public path is meant to cross the whole strip.