IEPEN HOUSE | E13 LAUREATE
EUROPAN 13 - Leeuwarden, Netherland - Honorable mention
Take some empty vacant square meters. Add a few kilos of furniture. Mix them with a spirit of sharing and open-mindedness and make it leaven with an efficient organisation, to manage it: you will have the Iepen House.
Thought as a system of spaces to share spread across the city, Iepen House has the aim to help the regeneration of Leeuwarden city centre as well as any other vacant city centre in the Netherlands and beyond. When you put together these four ingredients, you create a system of spaces, people and activities that connect and bring a new attractiveness to the area, increasing the desire for people to live there.
The east part of Leeuwarden city centre is affected by depopulation and vacant spaces. Our goal is to give people the opportunity to have a better living experience in an unique historical place with a contemporary lifestyle .
Although most urban regeneration strategies are supported by brand new constructions, our project develops on the existing buildings. Using only a few economical resources, our proposal aims to a widespread re-appropriation of the city centre.
Leeuwarden will be Capital of Culture in 2018. Taking advantage of the wave of energy , the Iepen House System will also set up a new development across the city centre.
Our proposal relies on a local approach (the Frisian Mienskip) and on communitarian values, but it is at the same time an exportable strategy. It could work flawlessly in many similar city centres suffering of the same issues.
TEAM:
Daniele Pasin (team representative) -
Marco Manunta -
Lidia Savioli -
Chiara Violi
