THE CRACK, Brussels (Belgium), 2021
Client : SLRB - BGHM
Team : Alive Architecture, Taktyk
Program : Collective art installation as part of the 101% program
Location : Garden-city of Kappelleveld, Woluwe, Brussels
Cost of work: 240 000€
Date : 2018-2021
The project
reclaims a former tennis court, long withdrawn from collective use. Uncovering
its ground bring life cycles and social life back. It is populated with curiosities,
social sculptures co-created from as-found materials. The crack leads to a very intriguing third space, an invitation
to the valley. Today our intervention concretize a joyful proposal that frees
some active inhabitants from current inertia to act. It can look like a weird
Belgian design solution, an opening pointing at a new closed gate placed by the
“owner” this is simultaneously its power; the spatial project criticizes
current modes of governing the cooperative and the rather absurd decisions
currently taken.
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Cette œuvre, fruit du processus participatif entre Alive Architecture, Taktyk, des habitant.e.s du quartier Kapelleveld, ABC et la SLRB, est conçue comme un lieu de rencontres connecté au « 55 », une maison communautaire.Depuis longtemps soustrait à l’usage collectif, l’ancien terrain de tennis laisse place à un sol qui invite vers une vallée encore oubliée. La Faille, peuplée de curiosités, sculptures co-fabriquées à partir de matériaux détournés, propose de nouveaux possibles.
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ON SITE
TOXIC SOIL 
CO-DESIGN, CO-CONSTRUCT, CO-MAINTAIN
