En Cours Dans les Coulisses

This year's urban architecture graduation studio proposes a site specific approach within the district of Bressoux, on the fringe of the city of Liège. Seeking for opportunities in the working class district, after the industry has left the stage, a courtyard on a corner is found. Behind the perimeter wall, basic necessities for those in need...

Future Bank: Transformation of the National Bank of Belgium

The graduation studio of Interiors Buildings Cities 2021/2022 revolves around the transformation of the National Bank of Belgium, a 90.000 m2 triangular building block which contains the offices of a public institution that controls and regulates a capitalist economy, independent from the government, between the lower and higher part of the...

Deconstructing the Urban Scenography of Socialist Realism: Post-war reconstruction of Warsaw between 1949-56

Architecture is used by political leaders to seduce, to impress and to intimidate. This ongoing romance of power and arts is a theme that has been known for centuries. 2019 marked a 70th anniversary of the introduction of Socialist Realism doctrine in Polish architecture, art and culture in general. That dictate lasted only seven years (1949-56)...

Brussels: A Scenographic Sequence

Architecture is capable of immortalizing the transformation of a series of fragments into a whole, and this would be what I called the scenographic architecture. The research that followed was based on this speculation and tried to immortalize my own experience of a specific peripheral condition in Brussels. This stage led, through various...