Digging into the ruins of Flemish agriculture

摘要

While quarantining in their flat in Ghent, Stefanie Everaert and Theo De Meyer, architects and the founders of the Stand Van Zaken collective, decided to take over a vacant glasshouse in the nearby countryside. In Flanders, obsolete glasshouses are a sign of the crisis impacting a once florid agricultural sector of small family-run farms, now threatened bysuburbanisation and housing developments for city-dwellers seeking the rural idyll. Last spring, the Ghent glasshouse was emptied and cleaned, broken glass was removed and curtains were added to screen solar radiation.