Projects
Out of Clay, laid in Bond. Building with the Brick in the County of Flanders, 1200-1400 KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis examines the introduction and spread of brick architecture in the county of Flanders in the 13th and 14th centuries. By use of building archaeology of existing buildings, supplemented with archaeological and iconographical information about no longer extant monuments, the thesis lifts medieval brick architecture from the determinist view of brick as a cheap substitute for stone, the common explanation for the rise of ...
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 ...
Phygital Heritage: Communicating Built Heritage Information through the Integration of Digital Technology into Physical Reality KU Leuven
Built heritage forms a unique asset by expressing the richness and diversity of our history, possessing vast amounts of information that varies from factual and explicit, to more tacit and embedded. Tacit knowledge of built heritage is typically more challenging to communicate to visitors in understandable and engaging ways due to its implicit and abstract character. Therefore, we investigate how built heritage information can be disclosed ...
Strategic Research Programme: Social and Cognitive Brain Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Interprosthetic Gap as a Risk Factor for Interprosthetic Fractures of the Femur KU Leuven
An interprosthetic (IP) gap is created when an arthroplasty is performed on both joints of the same bone to replace deteriorated joints. Specifically in this
thesis, placement of a hip and knee prosthesis in the femur was examined. Such an ipsilateral placement of stemmed prostheses into the same bone creates a gap of varying size and location depending on the prosthesis stem lengths. The IP gap is measured in between the tips of the ...