E18 Portrait - Fragments of history, threads of community

Amersfoort-Stadhuisplein (NL) - Runner-up

Fragments of history, threads of community

Associates: Nathan Guillaume (BE), Justine Noulin (FR) – architects, Mathilde Flas (BE) – urban planner

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"With all layers of time intersecting in the same place, re-sourcing here means listening to the land, to old infrastructures, to forgotten paths, and allowing them to guide a renewed cultural life where past, present, and future speak at once. The project restores water, soil, and vegetation, creates open cultural spaces for collective use, and reuses materials through low-impact construction, transforming a car-dominated site into a porous, resilient public realm."

A masterplan connecting time, scales, and landscapes
Axonometry of a cultural district bridging communities
Perspective view of the project from the canal bridge