Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ën)(s) Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s)
Provisional structures
Symptomatic signage
Mobility
Your body is not yours
Inventive solutions
Blablah geographique
Intake Center A.U.B.
Uni-lingual etudes
Neighbourhood Technology
Deco demos
Sticky-city
Green greener greenest
Revisited anomalies
Car alterations
Video
Knots ties rope strings
Congo monument
Traffic cones
Cipher city
Cat houses
Airco adapts
Parot-crap-parking
Doorbells
Neighbourhood Technology
Doorstop
15 Rue Vanderperren, Jette An improvised doorstop preventing the frontdoor of this apartment building to swing open widely.
Utility shack
Neerstalsesteenweg 76, 1190 Vorst.
Brick white squared cover
Augustijnerstraat, Jette, Brussels Contemporary solution to common problem: making sure filth or rain will not enter the cellar through the traditional ventilation grid. Here’s an equally beautiful, more Bric-à-brac style solution: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1097
C/Sigarettes
Spelling correction: in Dutch ‘cigarettes’ is spelled as ‘sigaretten’. This sign is on the balcony of the building that hosts cultural organisations such as Q-O2, FoAM and iMAL.
Protecting pallet
Ransfort straat, 1080, Molenbeek, BXL Temporary solution to protect water pump, built from a pallet, some decoration tape and left over planks.
Black light
Sint-Gilliskerkstraat, 1060 Saint-Gilles Street light painted black in order not to intrude in private space. This is a second version of the wooden street light blocker: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1069 And one has to admit: it is effective, the light is not reaching the apartment windows on the left at all.
Molenbeek Gateway
Jonction Opzichterstraat and Rue Victor Jacobs, 1080, Brussels. Since several years, this large terrain vague in between Rue Vandenbogaerde and the Rue de l’Intendant, that is destined to be redeveloped is fenced off from the street.
Sturdy upgrade
Be careful while parking, this orange cone is re-enforced with a steel rod and base. Avenue Fonsny
cone + chain
Hovenierstraat, 1080 Molenbeek Bxssl Garage Privé, parking reserved
Ça pousse bien ! ..
Rue de Liverpool, 1070 Anderlecht .. as someone shouted when seeing me taking this picture. 🙂
My place
Reserve your parking spot with two traffic cones. Use screws nails and bolts to make sure they are firmly attached to the pavement. 1000 Brussels
Numericollage
Some DIY house numbers from my neighborhood.
All together now
Here are some images of improvised repairs, alterations to covers of coal cellars that are no longer in use. Some quite decorative ones such as the one above, others are more pragmatic. The basements that were used back in the days to stock coals in general now serve some other function. It used to be […]
Don’t piss on my mailbox
Quai du commerce, 1000 Bxssls I suppose most guys would interpret this stainless steel triangle as a desperate sign to please not pee in that corner, but apart from blocking completely the lower letterbox, what does the triangle actually do ? Technically speaking it is still very possible to pee in that corner I guess […]
Crate shield
Scheldestraat, 1080 BXSL Shields for basement windows made from plastic crates. Perfect fit, widely available, keeps out trash, lets through air.
From shit scraper to rain pipe
. Many 19th + early 20 century houses in Brussels have a small space at foot level next to the main entrance. It is where the so called ‘shit-scraper’ used to be installed: a metal bar that you can use to scrape off the soles of your shoes, before entering the house. Having become obsolete, […]
Hollow symmetry
Rue d’Andenne, 1060 Saint-Gilles
City park grave
There are many homeless people in Brussels. Since two years one guy lived in a small tent right in the middle of the park on the Quai à la Houille, next to a very popular children’s playground. A photo of the tent in 2014 can be seen on Google maps. He died recently. The place […]
Bed gate extension
Two notable additions to the gate around the claimed space in Rue Vanbogaerde: An added side bar connects the two sides: it’s beginning to become a fenced of mini garden. Also: new obstacle are added to prevent cars from parking into the gate. Previous posts about the bed gate are here: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1860
Wifi free
Avenue Fonsny, 1060 Brussels Badly translated or very much avant-garde ? Does this café offer free wifi or is it a space where you can enjoy the abscence of wireless radiation ?
Bed gate 2
Rue Vandenbogaerde, 1080 Molenbeek A found bed in the process of being transormed to a fence around a reclaimed bit of city green. Below are some previous stages of this work in progress: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1836 http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1035
Ex shop
Thys-straat, 1060 Sint-Gillis This former shop is inhabited. The small entry niche is converted and now houses plants. Judging from the blue signs next to them, the plants are under safe camera surveillance.
Bed hek
Rue Vandenbogaerde, 1080 Molenbeek An old bed served well in the upgrade of The fence around this reappropriated garden. Below is an earlier version: http://westenberg.constantvzw.org/?p=1035
Corner Winkel
A nice bilingual shop sign on Rue du Midi, 1000 Bxl. In Dutch / English ‘Corner Winkel’ would mean: corner shop. In German / English it could be a poetic way to translate corner. ‘Corner angle’, ‘Corner corner’ hmm suggestions welcome.
You are here
Rue de Mirroir, 1000, bxl
Alternative trash can
Rue Pierre-Victor Jacobs, Molenbeek,Brussels Where to put once garbage when there is no trash can around for miles ? Empty poles that no longer serve their original purpose will do very well thank you.
Wild bells
Ribaucourt straat, Molenbeek, Brussels A nice organic doorbell constellation.
Depannage immediat
Rue de l’intendant, Molenbeek There’s too many cars? The world is in need of immediate reparation? Not sure how this plastic illustration of the northern hemisphere is best interpretated. In the middle of fading blue plastic continents apears a sign of a car that is being towed.
plug plug plug
Rue Masui, spotted by Tristan Boniver
No Fiets
Belgradostraat, 1060, Brussels
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