Bachelor projects :
Design studio 1
This was my first design as an architecture student. The assignment was to translate the first-floor plan of Villa Shodhan, designed by Le Corbusier, into a personal 3D interpretation. Alongside the floor plan, a text describing a Roman seaside villa was provided, and several elements from this description were reintroduced into the design.
Design studio 2
My second design was developed from ten references, with the golden spiral and triangular geometry as the main guiding principles. This approach led to a house supported entirely by its outer structure, leaving the interior free of traditional partition walls. Instead of dividing the space with walls, the different areas are defined through variations in floor height
Design studio 3
This design was developed for the Veergrep site in Ghent. The assignment asked for a house on the street side of the park, but instead I chose to integrate the entire park by shaping it into a hill. This allowed for the creation of an atrium where local residents could organize concerts and theatre performances. Beneath the hill, a house and a café were embedded with direct access to the river Leie. The result is a project that serves not only the inhabitants of the house but the entire neighborhood.
Design studio 4
For this assignment I began with an analysis of the structure of an old mushroom factory in Roeselare. Building on this research, I selected the former military airstrip in Moorsele as the site for my project. The hobby aviation club currently based there has only one aircraft, which is stored in the open air.
Drawing inspiration from the steel structure of the mushroom factory, I proposed a hangar constructed from a similar framework, covered with a stretched sail. This design refers to the sail-like coverings that local farmers use to store beets and potatoes, allowing the hangar to blend naturally into its surroundings while remaining understated in the landscape
Design studio 5
For the design assignment Movement (better known as the fire drill), we were asked to begin with the analysis of a well-known house. I chose Carlo Scarpa’s Casa Tabarelli. After the analysis, I created a fragment that reflected the key lessons drawn from both the house and Scarpa’s design approach.
The next step was to reintroduce this fragment into the remains of the same house after a hypothetical fire. The final design resulted in a ruin of the surviving concrete structure, over which a new roof was installed, constructed with the wooden joints developed in the fragment.