The LAP research group combines tacit knowledge from academic design research and cutting edge practices in architecture, urbanism and landscape. With a commitment to the dynamic interplay of research, practice, and teaching, LAP fosters design based research and supports the establishment of new standards within the field. A glimpse of the research lines below.
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urban andes
// Against the backdrop of climate change and intensifying human occupation, explorative design strategies can play a role in recalibrating…
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Momentum historical Kuip Ghent
The ‘Heritage Preservation 2.0’ framework, developed in the ongoing PhD project Revalue (Stijn Cools), is currently being applied in a…
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Productive Cities
// The plea for the urban economy and its place in the city is echoing ever louder. For several years, LAP has taken on the…
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reflection chamber
// Partnership between the City of Leuven and the Department. For many years, the Department of Architecture has focused its…
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Laboratory of the future
// KU Leuven is present at 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – ‘The laboratory of the…
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toolbox dorpse architectuur
// From the Campine region to the coast, villages in Flanders are rapidly transforming. A wave of apartment buildings is…
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Stubborn Grounds
Yuri Gerrits, doctoral research // ‘Stubborn Grounds’ focuses on the mechanisms and repercussions of urban transformation processes at the small…
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The cavity wall is dead!
Barbara Oelbrandt, doctoral research // The standard building concept of the last 50 years in Flanders, namely the cavity wall,…
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revalue
Stijn Cools, doctoral research // The continuing PhD project REVALUE examines and challenges the traditional boundaries between architecture and history,…
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a world of drawings
Els Van Meerbeek, doctoral research // Architects’ production as a mirror and parallel, beyond the office. What layers play a…
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A Practice of Village Urbanism
Ward Verbakel, doctoral research // The villages as part of the urbanized landscape and dispersed phantom metropole of Flanders are…