Europark Halewijn (B) presented to the press

The modernist social housing district on Antwerp’s Left Bank will become a mixed-use neighborhood with the qualities of a ‘soft city’.

Antwerps ‘Linkeroever’ is a place where infrastructure is present in excess, but human scale is lacking. How can this environment, characterized by grand gestures, be transformed from the smallest scale? Our proposal values the district as a link between the dense city center and the Scheldt Valley National Park. The landscape comes close to the home thanks to soft and green connections and spaces. New and existing buildings for housing and amenities follow at times the existing grid but at specific locations reoriented. The smallest scale of living receives attention from the very beginning, thanks to integrated anthropological and spatial research in collaboration with Ruth Soenen of Simply Community.

We look forward to contributing, with this ambitious project, to the realization of affordable and social housing in livable and well-connected neighborhoods in Antwerp and Flanders.

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