https://michrossiter.com 2026-08-15T17:14:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://michrossiter.com/hero 2026-08-18T11:49:12+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3085056443183558329539701965291/DSC_1023---edit_trans_saturated_LR.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M3089566290501785662080319685099/DSC_1023---edit_trans_saturated_LRc.png https://michrossiter.com/abstract-1 2026-08-17T08:16:27+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3085056443183558329539701965291/DSC_1023---edit_trans_saturated_LR.png https://michrossiter.com/how-to-be-both-chapters-1 2026-08-18T11:35:50+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3084978450478741894071436378603/DSC_7890-LR.png <h2 style="color: rgb(243, 110, 54);"><b>1. House everyone</b></h2><br /> How to provide both sufficient and pleasurable housing?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3084983833146428882150050169323/02_000078-edit-anonym.png <h2 style="background: rgba(20, 78, 142, 0); display: inline-block;"><b>2. Listen to the real experts</b></h2> <br /> How to be both a listener to the people of Heyvaert and a guest in their home, respecting their time and lived experience?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3084991493544287115589259297259/_DSC9785---edit.jpg <h2 style="color: rgb(230, 230, 230);">4. Cherish the existing</h2><br /> How to be both gentle with existing fabrics and ensure they are hard-working for future generations?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O3084999101516498691545922732523/03-b.jpeg <h2 style="color: rgb(248, 105, 179); background: rgba(103, 25, 25, 0); display: inline-block;">7. Persuade through alternative media</h2> <br /> How to be both incisive and reach beyond the industry’s echo chamber?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S3088251346208018291989768765931/02_trans.png <h2 style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5. Confront dwelling with making</h2><br /> How to calibrate where dwelling and making coexist, and where they segregate?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F3088292554887666641747281641963/260817_Facade-axo.png <h2 style="color: rgb(255, 148, 80);">6. Reframe comfort</h2><br /> How to make comfortable spaces which are passive and independent of mechanical climatic systems?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T3089321396415850273606096847339/260818_1-333-model.png <h2 style="color: rgb(243, 110, 54);"><b>1. House everyone</b></h2><br /> How to provide both sufficient and pleasurable housing?<br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3089549526912428214083031335403/260817_Ground-floor-axo.png <h2 style="color: rgb(124, 186, 253);"><b>3. Exploit the loophole</b></h2><br /> How to both confront the realities of financial and regulatory constraints and leverage the opportunities of banal aberrations?<br /> https://michrossiter.com/how-to-be-both-chapters 2026-08-17T16:53:40+00:00 always 0.5 https://michrossiter.com/1-house-everyone 2026-08-18T10:12:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2677486551521208020227630498087/horizontal.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B3088183821513954852628177813995/_DSC9769---edit_trans.png <div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: right">Existing tannery and proposed Sennette and Liverpool top-up blocks 1:200</div><br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N3088204251319909974104011637227/DSC_1035---edit_crop-trans.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D3089314463299323890239669731819/260817_Plan-1-100_Tannery-level-02.png <div style="text-align: left">Sketch plan 1:100</div><br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T3089322024158551101942138339819/260818_1-333-model.png <div style="text-align: right">Site highlighted in collective urban model 1:333</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3089452969330589021027181199851/260815_Third-floor-axo.png <div style="text-align: right">Third floor axonometry 1:333</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E3089454055548667057340418556395/260817_Second-floor-plan.png <div style="text-align: left">Second floor plan 1:250</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3089454841158603668482802778603/260817_Brief-diagram.png <div style="text-align: left">Project brief diagram</div> https://michrossiter.com/2-listen-to-the-real-experts 2026-08-18T08:20:40+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2677486551521208020227630498087/horizontal.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3084983833146428882150050169323/02_000078-edit-anonym.png <div style="text-align: left">(photo credit: Kaan Smits)<br /></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L3087803316650130190227988742635/DSC_9520---edit_trans_LR.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C3087805034447831822208854327787/DSC_9656_edit_LR.png “Rencontres à Heyvaert” research map https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3087823223693805006848839320043/DSC_0359---edit.jpg Holding space at Gilbard https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I3087825149865927695452799959531/DSC_0366---edit.png <div style="text-align: right">Child’s “dream home” model 1:20</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3087827390850184745983968477675/Dessines-ton-chez-toi__03.png <div style="text-align: left">Child’s drawing of where they feel “at home”</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D3087838377085319004813076660715/260817_Gilbard-workshop-poster_A3-white_ALT.png <div style="text-align: right">Poster for participatory workshop A3</div> https://michrossiter.com/3-exploit-the-loophole 2026-08-18T09:47:09+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2677486551521208020227630498087/horizontal.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B3087846050082303440595909542379/260817_meme.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O3087851740865956691845163975147/260115_Site-collages_trans.png <div style="text-align: left">Photo-collage of second-hand cars in ground-floor tannery as used by Abou Zeid</div><br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O3089423909731927848601491276267/260817_Phasing2_trans.png <div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: right">Project phasing timeline<br /></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G3089426446731087049949834576363/260817_Ground-floor-axo.png <div style="text-align: left">Ground floor axonometry 1:333</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B3089431622776793668407760716267/260817_Model-1-200.png <div style="text-align: right">Sketch model 1:200</div> https://michrossiter.com/4-cherish-the-existing 2026-08-18T09:58:43+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y3085014767063415151982151139819/Bloomberg_Brusselisation.png The Harvesters by Bruegel, 1565 (credit: Met Museum) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R3088075891071672359864727175659/Bruegel1565_The-Harvesters.jpeg The Harvesters by Bruegel, 1565 (credit: Met Museum) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3088080497647942678835085378027/DSC_7919_LR.png <div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: left">Site highlighted in collective urban model of Heyvaert 1:200</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H3088091179788500882562235171307/260817_Receipt-performance.png <div style="text-align: left"> The material receipts being unravelled during presentation<br /> </div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X3088176836008675299926624109035/_DSC9785---edit.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Fragment model 1:33</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W3088177998042871479186118607339/_DSC9715---edit.jpg <div style="text-align: right">Rue de Liverpool elevation in model 1:200</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3089438128869641489471777473003/260817_Belgium-map.png <div style="text-align: left">Research map of Belgium tracing the existing building’s material histories<br /></div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J3089444243836174715672171315691/260818_Elevation-1-100_Rue-de-Liverpool.png <div style="text-align: right">Rue de Liverpool sketch elevation 1:100</div> https://michrossiter.com/5-confront-dwelling-with-making 2026-08-18T08:03:15+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H3087750441954381721370681082347/260817_Plan-1-100_Tannery-level-02.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3088209618326311243603216105963/_DSC9763---edit_crop-trans.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3088247393162997016401405215211/_DSC9747---edit.jpg <div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div><div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: center"></div></div> <div style="text-align: right">Sketch plans at ground, first and second floors 1:200</div><br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3088249778437686211488686473707/260424_Perspective-06---Creative-hub-terrace_trans.png <div style="text-align: left">Creative hub terrace view</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P3088250333094387019787484463595/260817_Sketch-plans.png <div style="text-align: left">Sketch section through Polyvalent yard 1:100</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K3088252330692302761794828960235/02_trans.png <div style="text-align: left"> ‘Mr and Mrs Clark Percy’ by David Hockney (1971) share a room with a ‘topshop’ with women sewing (1820s)<br /> (artwork credits: Tate and Weaving Club)<br /> </div><br /> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z3088252973874928379825765155307/03_trans.png <div style="text-align: right">‘Making Whoopee’ by Mike Francis (2005) shares a room with Anni Albers Card Weaving at Black Mountain College<br /> (artwork credits: Mike Francis Art and Black Mountain College)</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A3088264411999952212317759275499/260430_Perspective-01---Polyvalent-yard_trans.png <div style="text-align: left">Polyvalent yard view</div> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B3089301328368993181648279765483/260817_Ground-floor-plan.png <div style="text-align: right">Ground floor plan 1:250</div> 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