Projects
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...
Quitopia. Collective City-making, Participation and Autonomy in Quito's Urban Future KU Leuven
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to challenge the way in which cities are planned towards a more inclusive approach. Taking Ecuador as a case-study, it initially looks at a set of concepts and articles of the 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution and National Plan, focusing on topics such as the city, participation and autonomy. In this way, the research attempts to detect the potential of this institutional framework in order to satisfy ...
Eatscape: Stage of in-between Drivers for Commensality. KU Leuven
This thesis was initiated with the question what architects and urban designers can learn by observing people eating in urban settings? Exploring this question, I, being an architect and urban designer, looked for finding tacit knowledge using explorations and site-visits. For this thesis, I performed eating as the mean of observation, exploration, research and design. I ate in places where the flow of people in that neighbourhood is ...
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Retrofitting Cities, Making Places - Policies for building energy efficiency KU Leuven
Retrofitting cities, making places - Policies for building energy efficiency (working title) is a doctoral research project whose aim is to develop a design-oriented investigation into the critical factors that can support, or hinder, the retrofit of urban places.
Within the framework of the Incubators of Public Spaces, a funded JPI Urban Europe project aiming at the development of a co-creative platform for the ...
The Emergent Urbanism(s) of Suburbio, GuayaquilA spatial ethnography of incremental grassroots development in times of a changing society and environment KU Leuven
Guayaquil – Ecuador’s main port and largest settlement – is a 70 per cent self-built city located amidst the most biodiverse estuarine complex of the South Pacific: the Guayas River Estuary. The city’s first suburbs proliferated in ecologically fragile zones in which the urban fabric and public spaces were crafted incrementally by various generations and through a multitude of design decisions. These now consolidated low-income neighbourhoods ...
Study of a family of asymmetric densities and flexible quantile regression KU Leuven
Probability distributions are fundamental tools for data analysis and statistical inference. Although often a symmetric distribution is used as a reference density for statistical modelling, it is unsuitable for multiple other applications. In this dissertation, we study a broad family of asymmetric distributions that can describe skewed data properly. A symmetric density is a special element in this family of densities. Based on the proposed ...
Co-design of Mm-wave Interfaces, Duplexers and CMOS Transmitters KU Leuven
The vision for both the 5th generation mobile communication systems (5G) and the internet of things (IoT) keeps moving towards the final deployment. These new emerging applications require enormous data transmission with low latency among user devices and different networks. Spectral resources at low-GHz range are running low and could hardly meet the requirement either in a wireless or wire-line fashion. Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) technology ...