Vittorio Romieri




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Niteshop


At the intersection of park pathways, tucked away near the Paradeplein, you’ll find the new Niteshop for Horst and Asiat Park. It is a place of opportunity, where young individuals can stop by not only for a drink or a snack, but also with an idea or a dream in search of guidance for a new project. The Niteshop functions as an informal in-between space, bridging leisure and youth work, for young and creative entrepreneurs.

Niteshop offers space for young locals to meet park visitors or host small events, make radio or sell for example their own T-shirts. With the support of organisations like OverKop and ROJM, project proposals and calls for help are taken seriously. In a park full of space, initiatives, and opportunities, the Niteshop becomes a place where something small can quickly grow into something bigger.


From an architectural point of view, Niteshop explores possibilities of sustainable and circular building. For the renovation, Alter and Baukreisel worked with reused materials from a former administrative building in Brussels, an example of urban mining. Their shared approach, where building and designing merge into a collective learning process, results in creative and unexpected forms. In this way, the building itself becomes a tangible example of reuse and imagination.

(text by Horst Arts and Music / ph Eline Willaert)