Name: Julia Kudła
Track: Architecture
Studio: Urban Architecture
Year: MSc 3/4 / 2025
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Elsbeth Ronner, Chiara Pradel, Jos Lafeber
Description:
The project explores the transformation of (post)industrial landscapes in Hoboken, Antwerp, focusing on the former Lemmerz factory site. Once a center of production, the site now stands fragmented and disconnected from urban life. Rather than treating the site as a tabula rasa, the project reinterprets industrial memory, material traces, and spatial remnants to encourage ecological renewal, foster communities, and shape a resilient new identity. The integration of residential, public, and productive functions offers a transferable model for regenerating (post)industrial districts. Through adaptive reuse, live-work typologies, and phased development, it continues the site’s productive legacy, positioning architecture as a practice of cultural translation and continuity, bridging memory with future urban potential.