"Here, their is a growing consciousness of the densification process. We have to clarify how we could transform our space without forgoing any of its intrinsic qualities."...
Experimenting with Making as a method for conducing interviews with inhabitants during the seminar “Iedereen deelt in Runkst” (Everybody shares in Runkst) with master architecture students of the University of Hasselt. Discussing about how people live and what they share through a generic Runkst house paper model as a domestic...
Today the first meeting with the inhabitants of the residential subdivision we will study in Lanaken.
A first insight into the life of the neighborhood with Günther and Martin.
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Participation to the Summer School in Maasmecheln (BE) on Urbanized Protected Areas to explore possibilities for residential subdivisions retrofitting on the border with the Hoge Kempen National Park, together with architects, biologists, lawyers and economists. An interdisciplinary insight into retrofitting. (http://www.uhasselt.be/UH/FieldResearchCentre/Topical/News/2017/Interdisciplinary-Summerschool-on-Urbanized-Protected-Areas.html)...
The scale of the experiment implemented by Lab InVivo and City of Périgueux is the whole city territory, with an exclusive focus on already developed urban areas and a nonexclusive focus on plots including 5 or less residential unit and plots with a detached house. Therefore, the experiment territory includes...
A first meeting in Bruxelles with Thomas Lommée, partner of Capa.City project to discuss about OpenStractures and possibilities for exploring making as a method in the retrofitting of residential subdivisions. The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis...
Today took place the Kick-off meeting with Patricia and Hanne form the municipalities of Lanaken and Turnhout (Blegium) to discuss about the (spatial) challenges of residential subdivisions and map interesting locations for CAPA.CITY Belgian case studies.
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