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MG tower

September 01, 2010    0 Comments
the mg tower is a skyscraper under construction of 119 metres in Ghent, Belgium. it will become the highest tower of Ghent and will contain offices. this project is part of a larger plan to turn the grounds of the former airfield of the city into a mix of a CBD and large scale retail development, which will be developed at the rate of t ... Read More »

old drawings

August 13, 2010    0 Comments
i used to draw a lot when i was younger, and i found these ‘old’ drawings on my deviantart account (link). here are some of my ‘architectural’ drawings =) ... Read More »

gwathmey case study

June 25, 2010    0 Comments
this is a case study of the gwathmey residence & studio in amagansett, new york. it’s a group project where we had to examine the design methods of charles gwathmey in this specific project of him. text is in dutch. Read More »

evolution of a model [2]

June 05, 2010    1 Comment
a new school project. a new scale model. you can find more info on the project here. Read More »

hover city

June 03, 2010    1 Comment
hover city is a school project, continuing after the ‘medium is the message‘ study. i continued the long, sleek snake design, 20 metres above the ground. hovering above the city. if you are interested in how i made the scale model of this project (last pictures), you can see how i made it here. ... Read More »

medium is the message

April 01, 2010    2 Comments
the medium is the message is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived. we had to explore three trajects which we can study for our master diploma: uAD         urban architectural ... Read More »

project kobra

March 20, 2010    0 Comments
the winter is over, so the work at one of the biggest projects in ghent can continue. this is the current condition of the two squares in the center of the city which are renewed: the korenmarkt and the emile braunplein. the project continues in the smaller streets which run to these two squares. ... Read More »

evolution of a model

March 13, 2010    0 Comments
this model was made for a school project in my first year. it is my biggest model i’ve made so far. and it was huge. we had to design three housings for students on the banks of a river in Ghent. Read More »

wasteland

March 09, 2010    0 Comments
in our previous school project we had to search and research a deserted ‘wasteland’ in the centre of the city Ghent. we had to develop and design one or more residential urban spaces and a modest urban function. we could only use recuperation materials and couldn’t forget to think about energy efficiency and climate neut ... Read More »

absent architecture of the 20th cen ...

March 07, 2010    0 Comments
today i visited a unique exhibition at the Civa (international centre for urbanism, architecture and landscape) in brussels. the exhibition is a tribute to the architecture of the 20th century and consists the reconstruction of models of projects, designed by the masters of the modern movement that either never has been build, or only tem ... Read More »