Typology	Shared Architectures
Program	Sport Center
Location	BE Brussels
Year	2021
Status	Competition
Size in sqm	20 000
Client	Régie foncière de la Ville de Bruxelles
Partner Office	BLOC paysage
Team	Julien Deloffre, Jan Geks

Vander Putten

: Masterplan for a stadium

The Vander Putten Stadium is a hidden sports enclave in Brussels, bordered by Boulevard Poincaré and framed by rows of trees. Today, it combines playing fields with workshops, storage, and staff facilities for the city’s Sports Department. With the district undergoing major change, the site is now the subject of a new masterplan.

The challenge is to welcome ambitious new programs: 120 public housing units to the north and the extension of the future Sennette Park to the west, while preserving generous open space and ensuring smooth transitions between sport, housing, and green infrastructure.

Our vision is to redefine the stadium as a compact, contemporary facility at the heart of a larger urban landscape. By revealing the site’s topography and planted grid, ensuring autonomy yet porosity between different actors, and introducing shared spaces at its center, the project aims to transform the enclave into a civic hub. A new architectural identity will combine renovation and recycling of the existing with a bold façade and compact volumes, opening the site to its neighborhood and to Brussels at large.

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