The Dam is today in a crucial moment of his history. A new Masterplan for the redevelopment of the area is going to be approved this year, 2016. Consequently, a Land Use Plan will be defined (RUP).
The Dam was once an important industrial area of the city. This is where the slaughterhouse was built and this acted as a leverage to develop the dam area.
The slaughterhouse gave the inhabitants an identity.
Nevertheless, this whole urban infrastructure is today unused and forgotten.
The new Masterplan - in the process of being approved – does not take into account the major importance that this slaughterhouse used to be in and for the city.
With this Manifesto, we want to shift this paradigm, this logic. We want to put the most important element of the Dam’s neighbourhood under the spotlight, the one that gave the neighborhood his identity: the ‘Slachthuis’.
The SlachtHUB team.
