Urban masterplan for the reconversion of the public spaces along the industrial canal crossing the region of Brussels Capital.

Year: 2017 –  2019
Client: Perspective Brussels
Design Team: Bureau Bas Smets – ORG squared

The design creates a horizontal platform for outdoor exhibitions, concentrating the landscape in a series of concrete steps that mitigate the elevation difference. Rows of poplar trees are planted in between the steps, integrating the site into its surrounding landscape.

Year: 2008 – 2010
Client: XPO Kortrijk
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Office KGDVS, Bureau Goddeeris, Joachim Declerck
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

Spontaneous vegetation and a network of lakes characterise this site of a former Russian army base. Two new ponds integrate the lakes into a performing hydraulic system, while a large grid of trees organises the arrival sequence and frames views on the existing landscape.

Year: 2008 – 2014
Client: Estonian Ministry of Culture
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: DGT Architects
Photographs: Takuji Shimmura

The garden is located in the middle of one of Europe’s largest tree nurseries. The nurseryman’s favourite tree species have been planted in groves to create an arboretum with a rich variety of atmospheres.

Year: 2007 – 2010
Client: Private
Lanscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

A large public plaza is created in front of the railway station. The columns of the railway bridge are integrated in a graphic pattern that organises the functional elements of the plaza. The platforms of the adjacent bus terminal are planted with high plane trees.

Year: 2009 – 2018
Client: Eurostation & City of Roeselare
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

Urban masterplan for the public spaces of the development of the former industrial site of Josaphat.

Year: 2016
Client: SAU
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Urbanist: MSA

Design of the outdoor spaces of a former brewery into a new neighbourhood. Lying along two waterways the project creates a park of seven hectares space in between the new buildings.

Year: 2009 – 2018
Client: Ertzberg
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Stéphane Beel & Xavier De Geyter

A concrete platform concentrates and organises all the outdoor facilities of a hospital, such as car access, bicycle racks and covered pedestrian walkways. Beyond the platform, the open space is transformed in a large public park that incorporates an existing waterway.

Year: 2009 – 2012
Client: C.P.A.S. & A.Z. Turnhout
Architect: Osar Architects
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

Study for the construction of a new neighbourhood on land won on the sea in the south of Incheon Seoul.

Year: 2009 – 2010
Client: Songdo Landmark City
Architect: REX Architects