Limite Limite
Limite Limite was a landmark building, the start of a local coalition and a trademark for the Brabant neighbourhood in Brussels from 1999 to 2004.
Limite Limite turned an urgent need for green space into an opportunity to bring stakeholders together and to put the Brabant neighbourhood on the Regional agenda. Architect Chris Rossaert designed a highly visible 9-metre high translucent tower that protruded into the street, and that served as a meeting and exhibition space. Through Wijkpartenariaat local residents were involved in design and building process. APAJ, apprenticeship training that prepares local unemployed for jobs in the construction industry, trained a number of its students through raising the tower.
Construction and use of the building served as a catalyst to bring together disparate groups in the neighbourhood. JP Morgan Guarantee Trust Company financed the structure, but also took responsibility in keeping the new network together. A numer of local high schools –Vlekho, Sint-Lucas, Social Highschool- participated with their students in one or more stages of the project and local shopkeepers also took a place in the network.
The temporary tower had to make way for a more permanent building in 2004, but the organization, Limiet Limite vzw continued to work in the area, and the material and a number of partners took the project a step further in Relimite.
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Bunker Souple Repertorium 1998 & 2000: available at Citymine(d) offices.
Generalized Empowerment. Uneven Development and Urban Interventions, 2006. Download here.
MapRAC. Plannen voor het RijksAdministratief Centrum. La Cité Administrative de l'Etat en cartes & en question, 2004: available at Citymine(d) offices.
Micronomics scanning: DVD online soon.
Networkbook for Urban P/Arts. 42 initiatives capturing London's Public Space, 2004: available at Citymin(e)d offices.
Towards. Cartes Subjectives d'interventions Urbaines à Bruxelles // Subjectieve Kaarten van Stedelijke Internventies in Brussel: available at Citymine(d) offices.