Kop van Kessel-Lo Leuven | SeARCH + AR-TE
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Belgian architecture practice AR+TE brought SeARCH into the project ‘ Kop van Kessel-Lo Leuven ‘ to create an urban connection and design a new public realm between the center of Leuven, Leuven station and the adjacent village Kessel-Lo which had been desperately lacking.
Courtesy of SeARCH, AR-TE – Photographs : Hennie Raaymakers
The Village of Kessel-Lo was cut off from the urban fabric downtown Leuven, and has been reconnected to create a pedestrian bridge and bicycle viaduct links. By lowering the public square 8 meters below street level, the development gains two floors of commercial space without any increase in building height (double ground use). Courtesy of SeARCH, AR-TE – Photographs : Hennie Raaymakers
This extra commercial space compensates for the expenditure in appropriating existing housing on the site and the construction of the new viaduct. Daily, over 20,000 pedestrians and cyclists had to travel via a tunnel underneath the train tracks and then negotiate an 8 meters acent before crossing the busy Martelarenlaan and then descending 3m on the other side.
Courtesy of SeARCH, AR-TE – Site Plan
This Gordian knot was solved by the simple introduction of a gradually sloping public square connecting the tunnel to Kessel-Lo under the Martelarenlaan. The design advantage was twofold: the existing tunnel becomes experienced less as a subterranean burrow and more a part of the ...
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