Name: Cristina Nistor
Track: Architecture
Studio: Urban Architecture
Year: 2025 / MSc3/4
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Rosie van der Schans, Lex van Deudekom, Leeke Reinders
Description:
The project challenges and critiques the dominant narrative of demolition and sterile replacement that characterises much of today’s urban development. It explores the architectural and social potential of an overlooked and banal industrial structure in Hoboken, Antwerp, once a rim-painting factory, now a decaying shell, waiting for its death. Drawing from the traces left behind, the story of the building was pieced together into a short 4 act film. The building is reimagined into a cultural and residential centre for the local youth, where the design is a continuation of the existing. Evolving and unfinished, shaped and continually changed by the community, rather than a static monument or ... a pile of debris.