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The Brussels capital region has undergone tremendous urban development over the years. In this transformation process, there are always two ends to a stick. On the one hand, there is a rapid development in a limited amount of space. On the other hand, ‘spillover’ territories of these larger development sites are formed. Over time these spillover spaces become part of the urban fabric as vacant spaces that are anticipating for a new user or to assume a new function. Essentially, they are in a period of waiting. Brussels is composed of many such urban voids that lose their function for a temporary period. These vacant lands were referred to as ‘Waiting Spaces’ (De Smet, 2013). The dissertation questions the potential of these vacant spaces to become a place of solidarity that can bring together diverse sets of communities and create a new sense of place in them. It questions, how can Place-based Solidarity be used for rethinking the way we design for Temporality of waiting spaces? How can the solidary appropriation of waiting spaces enable urban resilience? What are the potentials of engaging informality in architecture and bottom-up appropriations? The research focuses on the main key concepts of; Waiting spaces, Place-based solidarity, Informality, Urban resilience and Participation. To obtain a clearer understanding of these concepts, a literature review is conducted through surveying a range of different sources which enabled to understand the key concepts being explored and propose a suitable theoretical framework. Analysis of a selected set of case studies, gave the possibility to understand the different ways in which they have been implemented architecturally. The chosen case studies emerge from different cultural backgrounds and personal experiences. Through place-based solidarity and commons, architecture becomes a resource for solidarity. The design aims to address this in the urban and architectural scale. In the urban scale, it proposes an informal solidarity network for temporary use for waiting spaces in Brussels. It elaborates on how this could be managed and implemented, whilst making connections with the regional development plan for Brussels. In the architectural scale, spatialising solidarity has been explored through interventions that stimulate interactions between culturally diverse communities, on a particular waiting space in Brussels. The research concludes with a summary of the key points, the practices which permitted to achieve the objectives and the importance of this research in this day and age.