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The City of Ghent wants to centralise its logistic activities. This upheaval requires a thoughtful approach that takes into account today's needs while providing sufficient resilience to accommodate growth and shrinkage demands, to allow for new infill and to support an evolving site identity.

Rather than a design proposal, we offer a design strategy. Plan-making is often steeped in creating permanent structures, conceiving and implementing a particular final image. As a result designs lose flexibility. Moreover, the ultimate users are usually assigned a role as mere consumers of the place, whereas they should actually be the producers, those who give direction to the place. We therefore choose to make the permanence as resilient as possible to create space within which the place can continue to reinvent itself and respond to coming changes and current challenges.

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Competition: First Prize