Spring - Residency #002

Edited by Architecture Curating Practice
Text by Helen Van de Vloet and Nathan Heindrichs
English translation by Patrick Lennon
Graphic design by Bureau DAM with Pedro Mata

Supported by the Flemish Government, la cellule architecture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the City of Brussels

In English
Published in January 2025
By Architecture Curating Practice

ISBN 9789464664621
Soft cover
58 pages, 21 x 28 cm

Between February and June 2024, Brussels-based architects Helen Van de Vloet and Nathan Heindrichs, founders of the office Specs, carried out a residency focusing on the accessibility of drinking water in the public space in Brussels. Although often seen as a matter of course in our modern, Western societies, where water is an integral part of domestic comfort, access to drinking water and its availability in the public space remains an essential issue.

This publication is the restitution of the research carrier out by Helen Van de Vloet and Nathan Heindrichs during ‘Residency #002 - Spring’. It gathers the observations and analyses of the resident architects, accompanied by a rich series of photographs. It provides a map of the city’s fountains while looking with great sensitivity at their current and future role in the public space.