RYCKAERTSPLEIN

The renovation of the station area at the edge of the city of Antwerp brought back a coherent relationship between the 2 ha square and the infrastructure surrounding it. Instead of just being a traditional station square, a place for passing through, West 8 sought to achieve a constantly changing perspective effect in a garden for the passers-by.

Freeform patterns of natural stone, gravel and 80cm high, evergreen hedges create a silent inward turning world interacting with the busy travellers; It is defining arbitrary routes through the station square.

http://www.west8.nl/projects/public_space/ryckaertsplein/