Bridge was a temporary site-specific installation, being part of the Playground Kanal city festival. This festival focuses on the canal zone in Brussels and tries through a series of activities to transform this border line, both socially and spatially, into a binding element. The organisation initially invited Gijs Van Vaerenbergh for the design of a scenography for the festival talking place at the B-post building, situated on the axis of the North railway station and the site of Tour & Taxis. However, they proposed the construction a temporary pedestrian bridge, physically embodying the ambitions of the festival, namely creating a connection between both sides of the canal. This intervention took place on the exact same location where for many years procedures have been running to construct a permanent bridge, but without results because of the complexity of the administrative and political context.
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Architects: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Architect: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Jeroen Verrecht , Tim Van De Velde

Engineer: Util struktuurstudies

Developers: Festival kanal & Architecture Workroom Brussels

Constructors: Sarens Group & Van der Spek

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