TY - THES ID - 135629262 TI - Inter-lacing: weaving of a path AU - Diana, Claudia AU - Ooms, Tomas AU - KU Leuven. Faculteit Architectuur. Opleiding Master of Architecture (Ghent) PY - 2018 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Architectuur DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135629262 AB - This publication explores through a careful research sensitive topics in the city of Calais. It offers an insight on the analysis and design process by showing how my train of thoughts developed through the artefacts produced. The drawings accompany the entire process and drove me to find a concept design. On the base of these strategy the research focuses on the changing identity of Calais: from Lace industry to ‘Ville fantôme’ and from strategic point for international conflict to strategic passage for asylum seekers. Vacant lace factories and bunkers are a clear icon of the history of the city: the study explores the potential offered by these elements and their importance, as they mutated simultaneously with Calais. The design proposal aims to link the present of calais to these 2 elements of the past, and design for the future of the city, following the ongoing cycle. A brown field, former ensemble of lace factories with a glorious standing facade, was chosen to host an industry of jobs: a centre for learning and co-working that responds strongly to the unemployment in the city and the low numbers of young workers that migrate to cities that can offer advantages missing in Calais. The centre will provide a base for new companies to grow and move when they need bigger production or selling spaces to occupy vacant factories in the district, and attract residents to live in the re-activated area. An evocative compound formed by a XlX cent. fort and a XX cent bunker offered the perfect location for designing a suggestive memorial dedicated not only to the past but also to the present wars. A place of observation and contemplation: to sensitise people to the reality of the migration topic. The wall, linked to the approach of the municipality towards squatters is an important element in both proposals, as a permeable tool to cross the spaces in the building in one and as a proper hurdle as a reference to the migration borders in the other. The path of the design process was developed in parallel and the exploration of the two ensembles enriched one an other conducing to the final output. ER -