Projects
The meaning and impact of the concept of societal awareness on the design process of the interior and the role of the interior architect University of Antwerp
Forming and Performing Female Identities through Othering Interior Garments in Belle-Époque Belgium and France Ghent University
During the nineteenth-century, fashion etiquette distinguished many categories of clothing suitable for specific occasions, locations, and times of day. One category, which expanded from the 1870s onwards, was that of interior gowns or undress. While most were relatively simple, the interior gowns of wealthy women could be lavish, their design inspired by a spatio-temporal Other, meaning, either a prior historical period or a non-Western ...
The Genealogy of the discipline of Interior Architecture.The Mission, Education and Oeuvre of Gatekeeper Jul De Roover University of Antwerp
The Design of Civic Public Displays for Human-Data Interaction KU Leuven
The potential of public displays, i.e., screens situated in (semi-)public spaces, to make information more broadly accessible and facilitate a local dialog is becoming widely recognized. However, designing civic public displays that successfully do so involves tackling key challenges that impact their potential to deliver insight and spark social interaction. This dissertation investigates these challenges specifically of civic public ...
To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp
Neural Networks as Metamodel for Hygrothermal Simulations of Building Components – Reducing the Calculation Time of Probabilistic Assessments KU Leuven
Simulating the hygrothermal response of a building component often involves many uncertainties, such as the exterior and interior climate, or even the exact geometry and material properties. A deterministic assessment often does not suffice to come to a reliable design decision or conclusion, whereas a probabilistic evaluation includes these uncertainties, and thus allows assessing the hygrothermal behaviour and the related damage risks more ...
Massive star asteroseismology with K2 and TESS KU Leuven
Stars born with more than eight times the mass of the Sun contribute significantly to the energetic and chemical evolution of galaxies. Born with convective cores in which they produce new elements through consecutive nuclear fusion cycles, they ultimately collapse leading to potential supernovae and compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes. During the course of their life they are affected by stellar winds, possible binary ...
Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020) KU Leuven
In recent decades, architectural historians have increasingly scrutinised the embassy building program of state actors. Framing an embassy to be the physical manifestation of the state, scholars have examined if and to what extent state actors have approached the commissioning of a purpose-built embassy as an opportunity to radiate nationhood abroad and express foreign policy stands and, more importantly, what kind of architecture they saw ...