Located in the heart of Jette, on the edge of the residential district and the former Tour & Taxis industrial zone, Recypark Jette embodies a new generation of public infrastructure dedicated to reuse and urban circularity.
Driven by the conviction that nothing leaves the site, everything is transformed, the project – entitled “Nobody Leaves the Party” – rethinks the life cycle of buildings and the way we build in the city. Rather than building new, it builds on existing structures, transforms them, and reactivates them: each building, each material becomes a resource. The former industrial halls are being rehabilitated to house a recycling park, a donation and repair center, as well as community spaces open to the neighborhood. Across the entire site, the recycling park structures the landscape and is organized around three gardens: fissures, mounds, and rain, promoting water infiltration, biodiversity, and soil regeneration.
The existing buildings were carefully studied to be preserved, transformed, or selectively deconstructed. The concrete and masonry structures were preserved as the spatial framework of the project, while the lighter metal halls became “donor buildings,” providing profiles, slabs, and cladding for the new construction. At the center of the project, a large hybrid steel-concrete canopy, designed exclusively from elements salvaged from the site, houses the Recypark logistics area with containers.
Rue Uyttenhove 71, 1090 Bruxelles
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