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step 1: ELABORATION OF THE INITAL QUESTION step 2: ELABORATION OF step 3: PUTTING INTO PRACTICE A VISION FOR FURTHER Labo S/04 DEVELOPMENT Reconstruction COMPONENTS / OPTIONS Architecture in the cultural value formal Front Zone of ‘14-’18 issue 1 parameters AFWEGING / POLICY ONTWERP DOCUMENT locus value formal issue 2 parameters heritage question SUBDIVISION IN POLICY VISION ISSUES POSITIONING CHOICE OF INSTRUMENT practical THE ANALYSIS value formal issue 3 parameters Commissioned by: Province of West KNOWLEDGE INPUT 1 KNOWLEDGE INPUT 2 Flanders NARRATIVE OF RECONSTRUCTION INVENTORY 2007-2008 RECONSTRUCTION ATLAS Collaborators: P. Uyttenhove, T. Bulckaen, M. Liefooghe, D. Schmitz INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTING THE FORMAL PARAMETERS POLICY STRATEGIES VALUE ANALYSIS cultural value: - a selection of what premises to - awareness best practices The study ‘Reconstruction architecture - NARRATIVE of reconstruction preserve - location and layout of the plot governance in the front zone of ’14-’18: Ieper and - INVENTORY valuable buildings, building alignment, building lines, publications freestanding volumes or street façade, ... locus value: circulation, green layout, Heuvelland’, dating from 2007, served as layout of public space introducing a jurisdictional framework for a permit policy a frst exploration on how to deal with - ATLAS reconstruction structures - building form preservations typology (workers house, spatial plans reconstruction architecture in Ieper and commercial premises, subsidies practical value: elongated farm, villa, ... Heuvelland, against the backdrop of a school, presbytery...) - generally obvious building volume negotiation policy that desired to articulate a vision façades (level of articulation, (preferably before granting the building - additional study with or without depth, openings in the permit) concerning this architecture. A year later, façade...) action - materialization urban design the study was followed by a ‘Reconstruction obtaining property formulation project defnitions architecture in the frontzone of ’14-’18: ... an atlas of the villages of Heuvelland’, a completion of the mapping of the villages of Heuvelland. Context After World War I, around 100 000 building From heritage questions towards policy making. were destroyed or laid in ruins in Belgium, with the biggest damage in the front zone, the axis of Nieuwpoort-Diksmuide-Ieper. a qualitative and sustainable urbanism on climate. The reconstruction took place between the other. 1919-1926. The locus value is determined by the As a result, during that period of time, a Framework extent to which a building is conducive to completely new landscape was laid out To conduct the research, a framework the urban fabric or is essential to a bigger, in the front zone. Woods had disappeared was set up, enabling to evaluate specifc qualitative ensemble. An ensemble can and were only partially replanted. Farms, heritage conficts by granting each be a cluster of buildings, a street view, a villages and towns got rebuild with an building or case study with certain town- or cityscape or a landscape. Hence, altered layout. A considerable number parameters or values: a practical value, a the locus value of a building should be of prominent building got restored in a cultural value and a locus value. considered in relation to its environment. so-called reconstruction style, an eclectic style with mainly local style fgures. The practical value refers to the extent that All three values stand independently With a broad consensus, local a building can meet the current user needs. next to each other, for reconstruction municipalities value these historicising These needs can vary in one building, architecture as well as for new architecture. buildings as heritage. However, the less depending on the regarded user. The This way, the framework generates the articulated buildings in cities, villages and functional capacity, the building physics, possibility to evaluate existing conficts on the countryside as well play a vital adaptability... all infuence the practical and to formulate conditions or ambitions role in composing the overall image. An value of a building. for future developments. Moreover, it image that is characterised by a striking becomes apparent that contemporary homogeneity. When a building expresses current or architecture and urbanism can be Nowadays, this patrimony is under an historical contemporaneity, one can embedded in a legible and coherent increasing pressure, since renovations and assume it has cultural value. On one reconstruction landscape. A landscape demolitions of buildings seem inevitable in hand, we make an appeal to buildings in that is not static but can unfold itself in the order to meet the current living standards. order to commemorate, remember or get future. Therefore, a critical refection upon this introduced to certain historical events, issue is crucial when aspiring to establish as well as to the past itself. On the other Atlas of the spatial reconstruction a decent heritage preservation policy on hand, some buildings are valued for their structures one hand and generate opportunities for expression of the contemporary cultural The intention of this analysis of the Location of the ca. 100.000 destroyed building after WWI. MAIN AXES NEW LANDMARKS Building Alignment Plan Ieper 1924. ORIGINAL RECONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING OR MONUMENT < Map depicting the main structures. TERTIAIRE STRUCTUREN stegen en publieke/collectieve binnenblokken reconstruction landscape is to deduce vaak ik relatie met publieke- en semipublieke infrastructuur van an ‘urban structure’ of the reconstruction de stad (rood) of the inner-city of Ieper and the villages of Heuvelland, that proves relevant KAVELS for the policy regarding heritage and - heterogene kavelstructuur urban planning. Therefore, an atlas was VOLUMES composed, collecting a series of maps, - chaotische, driedimensionele initially covering Ieper and three villages uitbouwen (geen duidelijke rooi- en bouwlijnen) of Heuvelland: Kemmel, Westouter and - zelfstandige volumes Dranouter and in a later study completed Building Alignment Plan Westouter 1924. - heterogene volumegroottes by the remaining villages of Heuvelland. GEVELS The atlas is intended as an instrument - weinig tot geen controle op de to enable well-considered decisions gevels regarding building permits and other - gevelontwerpen: functionalistisch, planning documents and to set the agenda menging van verschillende bouwperiodes en stijlen, veel for an enlightened spatial policy. verbouwingen The various sub-structures are presented in separate maps and visualised by means of photographical series. In certain cases, the superposition of dif erent map can reveal which element of a building is an ‘exception’ and which follows a certain contextual logic. Moreover, one can investigate whether a building is conducive to the image of the village, intended at the reconstruction. < The historicizing image of a building is mainly due to the front façade: the cornice line of the front façades The document focuses on the reciprocity is divers and articulated strongly compared to the between the public space and the rear façade. reconstruction architecture, since the level A BABAB HERHALING EB B E EB HERHALENDE SPIEGELING EBC C B E SPIEGELING Aaa A A A VARIATIE REPETITION INNER AREAS OF BUILDING BLOCKS MIRRORING SEMI PUBLIC AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS REPEATED MIRRORING VARIATIONS < < Map depicting the secondary structures Map depicting the tertiary structures. of publicness of a place and its position Therefore, three more subsequent steps within the urban fabric seem to play a are proposed to generate several feasible vital role in the design of reconstruction options. The frst two steps, elaborate the architecture. This interplay is demonstrated initial question and formulate a vision for by the noticeable diference in attention further development, are illustrated by and efort put in the front and rear façade, or means of the case studies. The fnal step the explicit distinction between the design refers to choosing the appropriate policy of public and private space. The more instrument. Obviously, the content of public a building, the more an individual these policy documents should be guided expression prevails over continuity. On by the frst two steps. the other hand, composition principles such as repetition, mirroring and variations on neighbouring premises, used due to a pressing need for housing in the post-war time, are mainly found in the outskirts of the village. Case studies By means of case studies in the inner-city of Ieper and the villages of the Heuvelland, this research attempts to work out a methodology to evaluate current spatial developments and to provide them with a suitable policy. The methodology proposes to map the complete process from heritage confict to a suitable political answer. The value analysis is an efcient and useful instrument to answer certain questions but is, however, not sufcient. Case: the expansion of a corner dwelling in the village of Kemmel. Case: workers houses in the Kegelstraat in Ieper..

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