In 2009, the City of Antwerp launched a competition to rethink municipal waste infrastructure — a typology typically relegated to generic asphalt lots and containers. Bovenbouw won with a master plan treating the recycling park not as an industrial backlog, but as essential, high-frequency public space. Following early siblings like the recycling centres Luchtbal and Borgerhout, Kielsbroek is the lineage’s last addition, aiming to highlight the destigmatization of waste management.
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