Summer in Kiel/Antwerp & Winter in Kiel/AntwerpThe strategical Approach of the Competition venue is to rethink and think ahead an Idea found in the originated condominium. To redesign means to reinterpret. Or to redevelop the basic Idea of Renaat Braem for the social housing complex.
The Charta of Athena gives the design line of the Building as an Object in the free, green public space as an landscape garden. Human Being and Nature form the quantity of the City as a social framework of demands.
As seen in the historical origin of the Orangerie as a main component of the Park; in wintertime an Extension. The boiler house of Kiel is to be red as an technocratic-humanistic component as well, forming social needs.
In the beginning of spring, the Plants are to be dispersed and arranged throughout the settlement, with some of them staying inside the Orangerie - buried or in buckets.
Temporary arrangements for abidance and promenade arise in the park, the hall‘s inside offers space for cultural events.
Over winter, frost-sensitive plants are accommodated in the hall. The cistern in the basement, where rainwater is stored, guaranties sustainable water-supply for the plants, a hypocaust located in the former steam funnel warms up the hall.