Vacancy is everywhere these days, but more precisely on the High Streets in Charleroi. Once one of the most influential industrial cities in Belgium, after the collapse of the industrial revolution and the beginning of the digital revolution, people started to disappear from the city, with high vacancy rates as the biggest consequence. My Master Design Project focuses on the vacant street, Rue de la Montagne.

Just as flowers provide, through the use of cross-pollination, for the fertilisation of other flowers and thus maintain the ecosystem, we can also apply this principle in architecture.
The cross-pollination of interventions in a certain place can ensure the activation of this place. Focusing on a few bottlenecks around Rue de la Montagne is therefore my goal, with the ambition of reactivating this artery.
Gates are set up at four strategic points, each providing access to Parc de la Montagne. These are L'institut Saint Joseph, the old entrance of the school, the connection with the Conservatoire and finally the connection with the Stynen building.
At the same time, the gates divide the park into three sub-parks, each with its own form language and use. The literal meeting of these four gates also indicates the physical meeting of all uses, in the form of a greenhouse.
The park and its connections become central, the surrounding buildings become peripheral.