Recycling Park / Bovenbouw
In 2009, the City of Antwerp launched a competition to rethink municipal waste infrastructure — a typology typically relegated to generic asphalt lots and containers. Bovenbouw won with a master plan treating the recycling park not as an industrial backlog, but as essential, high-frequency public space. Following early siblings like the recycling centres Luchtbal and Borgerhout, Kielsbroek is the lineage's last addition, aiming to highlight the destigmatization of waste management.
In 2009, the City of Antwerp launched a competition to rethink municipal waste infrastructure — a typology typically relegated to generic asphalt lots and containers. Bovenbouw won with a master plan treating the recycling park not as an industrial backlog, but as essential, high-frequency public space. Following early siblings like the recycling centres Luchtbal and Borgerhout, Kielsbroek is the lineage's last addition, aiming to highlight the destigmatization of waste management.
