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Achieving Critical Insights about Multiple and Temporary Uses of Space and Changing Policies. This PhD-project aims to research ‘new models of productivity of urban sidewalks’ within the contemporary…
Urban transformation is directly related to the planning, design and use of a series of urban infrastructures: from streets to highways, from bus to train lines and their…
During the last decades collective spaces around Europe have been changing rapidly. We are witnessing the emergence of a new condition called ‘super-diversity’. This term a level and…
Experimental Practices in Architectural Design Studio This PhD research aims to focus on experimental practices in architectural design studios through three main processes namely, triggering concepts, extraordinary representations…
Micro strategies for a social and sustainable re-use of fragile heritage. This comparative, local-interactive project aims to understand, and create a better insight, how local populations of deprived…
Understanding Urban Dynamics of Informal and Formal Market Spaces as Emergent Infrastructures: Self- Organisation Processes of Urban Growth and the use of Collective Spaces in the African City –…
Tracing the deep significance of built heritage through encounters with undisclosed protagonists This research study is inspired by a great fascination with built heritage, for its tangible beauty,…
The research is focused in two intermingled lines. (1) The first line researches the ‘mechanisms on theory-building’ with a special attentiveness to the relation between theory and daily…
The common research project starts from the idea that the built environment and open spaces, can be understood as Collective Structures. The research project focuses on urban projects,…
Project Arrivée: Counter-mapping Super-diversity in Brussels and Ghent with Architecture Students This project introduces a counter-mapping attempt augmented by a Geoweb 2.0 platform in the context of two Belgian inner-city…
If we consider highly urbanised regions, like Flanders, as atypical metropolitan constellations than the quality of this diluted urban environment, characterised by a multitude of ‘holes’, is to…
Bridging the gap between formal and informal design processes This doctoral study proposes that, all societies which are in transition require a new role and form of architectural…
This research covers an interdisciplinary area between architecture and urban design, participation and digital spatial media*. The two main and complementary focus points are exploring and enabling bottom-up…
Streetscape Territories is the name given to an international research and design project that deals with the way buildings and properties are related to streets and how their…
Informal and social practices of collective space This project was part of research study of the Facultad de Artes Integradas, Arquitectura, Univ. de Ibague (Colombia) on the social…
Theory and Practice of Arid Landscape Design of Shlomo Aronson Shlomo Aronson (b. 1937) is a leading Israeli landscape architect whose works are well known in the professional…
Unlocking the potential of collective spaces in All City/All Land. Defining a theoretical framework and exploring an attitude for intervention in the dispersed territory. This research focuses on…
Infrastructures under Transformation as Spaces of Collectivities. Case-Study: Glòries, Barcelona, Spain (PhD project completed in 2021) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kris Scheerlinck (KU Leuven) Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yves Schoonjans (KU…
An Opportunity in Contemporary Remains: Change of Use and its Relation to the Urban Fabric. The regeneration of urban areas is a multi-layered topic, characterised by a high…
Architectural remote practices A research on the design of collective spaces in the distance PhD project Johan Nielsen (Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven) The planet’s response to human…
