Fishing pond at Uccle

Momentary association

About: The municipality of Uccle owns beautiful wooded land on the edge of the Linkebeek river and including an artificial pond whose banks are in poor condition. The site was used by a fishing club whose members had access to the pond for a fee. Given the gradual densification of the outlying districts, the town wishes to open the site to the public, even if it means seeing the disappearance of the fishing activity. The landscape project attempts to strengthen the place's integration into ecological networks and to manage, through new specific technical developments, the flooding problems linked to the floods of the stream and the hyper-waterproofing of the soils on the outskirts. A participatory approach is activated in the street and district with the local cultural relays and the members of the fishing club. In this way, the users are actors of the project, so as to find a means, through dialogue, to reconcile all uses and respect everyone's habits by creating new ones. The detailed study of the different types of banks recreated around the perimeter of the pond makes it possible to diversify the humid ecological environments, to strengthen the diversity of fauna and flora and to multiply the experiential situations of contact with water.