The “Over de ring Zuid” project is part of a major territorial reflection on the future of peripheral infrastructure in Antwerp and the possibility of covering it in certain places, in order to create opportunities for connections, public spaces and future developments. It is a question of creating the continuity of the city beyond the infrastructural rupture that was introduced in the 60s. The sector of intervention consists of 4 km of infrastructure with all the urban and landscape approaches: how can potential coverage be a means of a gradual transformation of this territory?
The ring project is an illustration of the exceptional opportunities that are created thanks to the idea of putting road infrastructure in the background and prioritizing the city of tomorrow with its networks of soft mobility and public transport, with collective spaces and ecological reserves, with mixed urban developments and with nodes of metropolitan and neighborhood activities, while keeping the large landscape as a framework for the structuring of continuities around the ring.