Brussels, 2025
For TEN, in collaboration with Babini Geysen
Competition 1st prize / 2023 - ongoing
The title “Nobody Leaves the Party” reflects the design ambition behind the new Recycling centre for Jette, Brussels. The project strives to maximise the reuse of the existing buildings, components, and materials currently occupying the site by incorporating various degrees of circularity. The intervention addresses the urgent challenges facing contemporary construction practices—namely, the increasing scarcity of raw materials and the impact of the carbon-intensive construction sector on the environment and society.
Rather than contributing to waste, Nobody Leaves the Party frames scarcity as an opportunity and presents a new model for designing circular economies. In doing so, it showcases the architectural potential of recycling while promoting awareness of material culture and its vital role in the built environment.
The title “Nobody Leaves the Party” reflects the design ambition behind the new Recycling centre for Jette, Brussels. The project strives to maximise the reuse of the existing buildings, components, and materials currently occupying the site by incorporating various degrees of circularity. The intervention addresses the urgent challenges facing contemporary construction practices—namely, the increasing scarcity of raw materials and the impact of the carbon-intensive construction sector on the environment and society.
Rather than contributing to waste, Nobody Leaves the Party frames scarcity as an opportunity and presents a new model for designing circular economies. In doing so, it showcases the architectural potential of recycling while promoting awareness of material culture and its vital role in the built environment.
Thun, 2023
In collaboration with Raphael Blain
a research publication on windows in switzerland
Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zurich, Momoyo Kaijima, Simona Ferrari, Lena Stamm, Joel Zimmerli, eds.
Zurich, 2024
A window is a mediating device between our body and the environment: by simply opening or closing it, we can regulate air, light, and sight. Both climatic and cultural conditions, alongside technological developments, shape the architecture of windows. Switzerland’s diverse climate, which results from the Alps’ particular geomorphology and its geographical location at the crossroads of European cultures, has generated a wide variety of window forms.
The collection of windows gathered from field research takes the reader on a tour of the diverse practices of living and working in the country. Full-page hand drawings portray each window as a part of a complex network of elements and a site of knowledge. Short texts offer insight into various historical, technological, and socio-economic conditions of each spatial configuration. Conversations with Swiss architects reveal challenges of window design in contemporary building processes. The book unveils the role of the window as a tool for resourceful living practice and suggests ecological perspectives for its architectural design.
Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, ETH Zurich, Momoyo Kaijima, Simona Ferrari, Lena Stamm, Joel Zimmerli, eds.
Zurich, 2024
A window is a mediating device between our body and the environment: by simply opening or closing it, we can regulate air, light, and sight. Both climatic and cultural conditions, alongside technological developments, shape the architecture of windows. Switzerland’s diverse climate, which results from the Alps’ particular geomorphology and its geographical location at the crossroads of European cultures, has generated a wide variety of window forms.
The collection of windows gathered from field research takes the reader on a tour of the diverse practices of living and working in the country. Full-page hand drawings portray each window as a part of a complex network of elements and a site of knowledge. Short texts offer insight into various historical, technological, and socio-economic conditions of each spatial configuration. Conversations with Swiss architects reveal challenges of window design in contemporary building processes. The book unveils the role of the window as a tool for resourceful living practice and suggests ecological perspectives for its architectural design.