Bears' cage - 10.065
Program
Full design study
Concept
The project consists of the reshaping of the Eugène Verboekhoven square, mostly known in Brussels as the Bears'cage. This square shows a peculiar relief and is divided in two parts by a railway line. The MSA-Ney proposal, financially and technically sustainalbe, is to reunite the square with a steel footbridge which is more a public space than an engineering structure. It offers a central crossing of the square and, by a stepsystems allowing for stands , gives a response to the heavily-used large existing benches. The intervention does not pretend to modify the existing urban landscape and, with the replacement of the concrete railing of the existing peripherical bridges by transparent elements, offers a new focus to the Bears'cage.
In association with the architecture and landscape design office MS-A (www.ms-a.be)
