How should people live? Redeveloping this former industrial site into a residential and business district called for exploring this question alongside architects Beel, Coussée-Goris, and Van Broeck, as well as clients Axel and Dick Vervoordt. The urban-design approach is to convert and construct a compact cluster of buildings in staggered lines, separated by shared courtyards. The landscape-design approach is to unify these courtyards with a naturalistic woodland of understory species – a scaled recreation of the forest across the canal. The buildings seem to bloom from the wooded greenery; the uninterrupted swath of recreated nature, though growing on built ground, seems to have always existed. When residents look out their windows or wander daily through the quiet, nearly hidden footpaths, the true scale of the residential outdoor spaces is easily forgotten. The forest, though miniature, feels paradoxically vast and endless, as if one with the surrounding landscape.