Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

Research Projects Digital Design

Architecture (de)mobilised : (digital) explorations of the Belgian (post-)military construction site

Doctoral research combining construction history and digital humanities to explore Belgian military architecture beyond the modernist avant-garde narrative.

Collaborative Belgian BIM handbook establishing agreements and rules for Building Information Modelling across the full building life-cycle for all actors

BIM Handboek

Biographies of Buildings: Virtual Futures for our Cultural Past

In this research theme group, we will explore the usage of visual digital research tools to clarify patterns in the transformations of buildings, from early antiquity until the early modern era.

Biographies of Buildings

Hennebique and After: Concrete in Belgium, 1890-2020

Exhibition showcasing student research on 75 concrete constructions in Belgium (1890-2020), with digital models and VR presentations at Vandenhove Centre.

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Development of a common EXPRESS-to-OWL conversion procedure for IFC, enabling semantic web representation of 3D Building Information Models as RDF graphs

ifcOWL

Linked Building Data

W3C Community Group connecting BIM and Web of Data experts to develop linked data applications for architecture, engineering and construction

Gekoppelde gebouwdata

More Than Chat: Wat does AI mean for architectural design?

Exhibition exploring AI's potential in architectural design through three summer school experiments on authorship, reference, and authenticity.