Moving Stationery

Alexandru Lihatchi

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Fabien Leman Gaston Maes

The Sébeillon/Malley area, once shaped by industrial activity, is now evolving into a mixed district with schools, small businesses, and a growing need for community-oriented spaces. Today, the main transversal street is still used by cars, but through our project it becomes fully pedestrian, reclaiming public space for social and ecological purposes. The old train tracks, preserved as a symbol of the area’s industrial past, become the guiding lines for a new kind of movement. Motorized wooden modules travel along these tracks, each representing a type of waste collected from the six nearby schools: textile, paper, plastic, and a neutral category. Inside each module, open workshops allow anyone to take part in simple, hands-on recycling activities. Complementary structures, such as a small shelter near a school and a larger roofed area, ensure that the modules can operate in all weather conditions, creating a continuous and inclusive space for learning, making, and rethinking waste.

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Team
Unit:
LDM
Teachers:
Jeffrey Huang
Assistants:
Alexandre Roger Charles Sadeghi, Ga In Sim
Infos
Year:
2025
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Spring
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Representation, Technology, Urban study, Environment, Sustainability
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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