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Languages: FR-EN Pages: 192 Format: 20 x 26 cm
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39 €
ISBN
978-2-930451-42-8

Published on 25/05/2022

Past to Future

La Grande Carriere Wincqz

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The book documents the reconversion and restoration project of the Great Wincqz Quarry in Soignies, Belgium. A site built in the 19th century for the excavation of the famous Belgian blue stone, today dedicated to an ambitious project: the Stone Pole.

The book approaches the transformation of the site in three essays:

- a photographic essay that explores the interior and exterior spaces and landscapes of the transformed site ;

- a theoretical essay that places the Soignies project in the more general issue of the reuse of industrial heritage;

- a graphic essay that reconstructs through documents, photographs of the construction phases, drawings and sketches the transformation of the site as a process of place-making that is also a collective process of meaning-making.

"The architectural design has made it possible to organize and give form to these adaptations, insertions and extensions. It allowed the transformation of the existing heritage while preserving it through a conceptual approach based on simple principles, declined in a modular way to adapt to specific operational conditions. We will refer to this approach as transformative preservation."

From the theoretical essay From the Past to the Future: transformative preservation of the Great Wincqz Quarry industrial site, by Matteo Robiglio

Documents

SOUSCRIPTION_PAST_TO_FUTURE_-_La_Grande_Carriaere_Wincqz.pdf

Publications
Sous la direction de
Jean-Marc Basyn
Auteur
Sous la direction de Jean-Marc Basyn. Articles de : Véronique Boone, Tom Broes, Angélique Campens, Maurizio Cohen, Robby Fivez, Jacinthe Gigou, Gérald Ledent, Réjean Legault, Géry Leloutre, Laura Lievevrouw, Giulia Marino, Arthur Schweisthal, Sophia Sentissi, Emma Simonin, Iwan Strauven, Stephanie Van de Voorde, Ellen Van Impe, Tom Verhofstadt.

Published on 28/04/2026

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