Name: Fabian Wachter
Track: Architecture
Studio: Urban Architecture
Year: MSc3/4 / 2025
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Rosie van der Schans, Lex van Deudekom, Leeke Reinders
Description:
Dissecting urban fragments - assembling the city. The project focuses on the urban renewal of an abandoned postindustrial complex in Hoboken, southern Antwerp. The meticulous process of observing a given site, understanding its identity and documenting findings through various media was inspired by referential artistic endeavors of the past and proves viable today in a time where built obsolescence is at the forefront of architectural thinking. Thus a new approach to sustainable use of existing spatial situations was worked out and applied in a final architectural design project assembling a new downtown in an area currently neglected.