Author: WPels
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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 comprehensive masterplan study for the City of Ghent, in collaboration with its Department of Heritage and Stadsbouwmeester.This innovative approach expands the understanding of historical heritage beyond traditional confines, incorporating both tangible and intangible aspects with…
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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 theme of Productive Cities as a viable place for production and living, education, leisure, recreation, and ultimately climate machine. Industrial sprawl is still common practice in the dismembered zoning approach to urbanity. The place of 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 thesis- and studiowork on the context of Leuven. Challenges on specific sites and themes on the agenda of the City were subjected to a solid salvo of design experiments, leading to an array of possible…
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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 Future’ – as an important contributor to the bigger team of BDR bureau and Carton123. Curator Lesley Lokko explores how architecture can respond to the social and climatic challenges of today and tomorrow. At the…
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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 the relation between landscape logics and urbanization patterns in the Andes. Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. It is the result of a two-year…
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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 rolling across the country, representing an ever increasing proportion of the housing stock even in small village centers. The residential quality in and around such buildings projects is disappearing. Individual architectural projects however can make…
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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 grain in the urban tissue.It investigates the production of built form and space as the result of incremental change as it occurred throughout history, and it explores alternatives in the face of today’s urban challenges,…
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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, is no longer the most logical answer to the evolution when thermal and ecological performance requirements become very high. The increasing thickness of insulation results in a tendency of using lighter façade materials: slates, sheet…
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revalue
Stijn Cools, doctoral research // The continuing PhD project REVALUE examines and challenges the traditional boundaries between architecture and history, as exemplified by environmental consciousness with regard to the urban condition of the Tabula Plena. Qualities that were formerly considered the antithesis of the contemporary — such as antique, historic, and even ordinary things — …
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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 role on a subconscious level in the architect’s mind when designing ? (Can these hidden layers or values be detected at all?) Can they be traced in the medium par excellence with which an architect…
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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 undergoing rapid transformations. In a context where regulation and spatial policy is loose and often focused on damage control, a second wave of densification is ongoing. Since the beginning of the millennium building permits for…