Fort IV, a urban park in the suburbs of Antwerp is a relic of Brialmont's defensive belt. All the remaining buildings may be covered in vegetation nowadays, they still are in a great state of conservation and are only waiting to be re-used by some more pacific activities. In order to fund a rehabilitation project that would cover the 12 hectares park and its 7000 square meters of indoor space, we suggest to sell the fort to a private company that would install in it its business activity. As a counterpart, this private partner would pay for the maintenance of the public part of this mixed-use park. The global shape of the complex and the situation of the lot is ideal to install a data-center in the reduit (this specific building).
The public part of the program takes place in the caponniere with a cyber-coffee, a fab-lab, an e-sport room etc... Finally, to link together all the parts of this newfound system, we develop a network of extruded pathway that take inspiration form the modenature of the historical buildings and the shapes of the electronic cables of a data center.