Visitor Centre: Reuniting the Site - urbanNext, September 03, 2019. - 258 words.

Binario architectes, Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Belgium, Bridge, Built landscape, Cultural legacy, Facilities, Heritage, History, Project, Public buildings, Topography, Transformation, Villers-la-Ville


Photography: François Lichtlé


Throughout the years, the Villers-la-Ville abbey site had lost its logic and unity. Divided and savagely crossed by a national road – making it hardly legible as a homogenous whole – it was reduced to the ruins of the holy yard. This incoherent and chaotic layout led to the creation of a masterplan focusing on reuniting the Cistercian site.



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Architecture Project Visitor-centre-design Villiers-la-Ville, Belgium Belgium