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Year
Relics of Electronic Hallucinations. Gazing at Early Computational Fluid Dynamics Drawings from Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center
2024
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2024
Rules, A Short History Of What We Live By, A book by Lorraine Daston
2024
Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
[x] Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
2024
TV Show: 3D Digitization and Built Heritage Preservation
2024
Drawing air: the evolution of the representation of air in architectural drawing from the industrial revolution to the present
2023
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2023
Analysis, Systems & Composition
2023
Code Tracing
2023
Maison du Peuple full scale experience on its original site
2023
From projection to building and vice versa
2023
Emergence of pre-digital algorithmic design
2023
Comparing Randomness
2023
Anthropic Units in Baroque Architecture, the Gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Roman Palm
2023
Workshop Glyph
2023
Re-presentation as an analytical tool in Baroque Architecture
2022
Crossed Experimentations of Low-Altitude Surveys For The Detection Of Buried Structures
2022
Chamber Music Hall of Horta's Palais des Beaux-Arts: 3D Hypothesis
2022
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music II/II
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home
2022
Workshop (fig.22)
2022
Towards a multi-scale semantic characterization of the built heritage
2021
De l'incarnation de la protoarchitecture
2021
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music I/II
2021
Noise
2021
(Close) Reading Morphosis
2021
Jeu d’échelles / échelles du jeu
2021
Pohlke
2021
Workshop (fig.)
2021
Perspectiva Virtualis
2021
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2020
Exploitation des numérisations pour l'analyse urbaine en contexte archéologique
2020
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - The Algorists
2020
Urban Planning Representation
2020
Projection built into Sketchpad III: origin of a critical field in computer graphics
2020
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2019
Exploitation de numérisations hétérogènes pour la représentation et l'analyse d'un site archéologique de grande échelle : Pachacamac 1532
2019
Relecture de vocabulaires d’architecture : apport de la complexité des représentations numériques dans la caractérisation de formes architecturales
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Architectural Analysis and Graphic Representation - Morphosis in the 1980s
2019
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley II/II
2019
Histoires de Représentation
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Building Drawings : Decoding and Recoding the Graphic Projection Algorithm in Architectural Representation
2019
Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique
2018
Virtual Systems – Actual Objects: Rendition of Morphosis ' Compositional Principles in the mid 1980s
2018
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley I/II
2018

Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis

Collaborating institution: ubran.brussels
Budget: 70.173 €

2020-2024

The scientific study of the Palais Stoclet is part of a collaboration between the Brussels-Capital Region (Urban.brussels) and the ULB. On the basis of an in-depth examination of archive sources documenting the building immediately after its construction, as well as a detailed architectural analysis of its remarkable spaces, the aim is to produce a 3D model (hypothesis of restitution) of the building in its original state between 1911 and 1918. While the building's exceptional character is attributable to the famous architect Josef Hoffmann, this total art project also features contributions from major artists of the Viennese Secession movement, such as the famous painter Gustav Klimt. The scientific study of the Palais Stoclet is part of a collaboration between the Brussels-Capital Region (Urban.brussels) and the ULB. On the basis of an in-depth examination of archive sources documenting the building immediately after its construction, as well as a detailed architectural analysis of its remarkable spaces, the aim is to produce a 3D model (hypothesis of restitution) of the building in its original state between 1911 and 1918. While the building's exceptional character is attributable to the famous architect Josef Hoffmann, this total art project also features contributions from major artists of the Viennese Secession movement, such as the famous painter Gustav Klimt.

A landmark of Belgian heritage, the Palais Stoclet has for some years now been on the very select list of Brussels buildings included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Despite this international recognition, the building remains little known to the general public. Through this research, the Brussels region hopes not only to make this knowledge accessible to as many people as possible, but also to build up a scientific information base on the spatial aspects of the building and its remarkable spaces. Behind this project of digital documentation of the work of the architect Josef Hoffmann, the research conducted by the AlICe laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture (ULB) aims to consolidate, around the three-dimensional representation of the building, a knowledge base that can be enriched over time.

More specifically, the digital reconstruction of the Palais in its 1911-1918 state is based on textual, photographic and graphic sources. These provide researchers with information on the nature of the materials, the morphology/geometry of the architectural elements and, where appropriate, their dimensions. The entire architectural part of the reconstruction hypothesis is therefore formulated by reading, interpreting and even extrapolating the information contained in these sources. By indexing and linking the sources with the digital model, the scientific approach aims to provide the most accurate possible account of the knowledge that researchers have about the Palais at a given point in its history. The aim is not only to produce a tool capable of expressing the relative degree of current knowledge about the state of the Palais when it was delivered between 1911 and 1918, but also to ensure the traceability of the intellectual approach for future research work.

The 3D restitution hypothesis of the Palais Stoclet and the researchers have been awarded the 2024 prize for scientific dissemination by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). This prize recognises the researchers' commitment to disseminating knowledge, as well as several years of sometimes difficult research.

Research team:

Jean Trottet (Research & 3D modeling, ULB)

David Lo Buglio (Scientifique supervision & project lead, ULB)

Urban experts:

Thierry Wauters, Cecilia Paredes, Isabelle Leroy, Stéphane Demeter, Guy Conde-Reis

Press coverage and conferences :

RTBF


BX1


Bloomberg

" Belgian Architectural Marvel May Soon Get Its Public Debut"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-19/belgian-architectural-marvel-may-soon-get-its-public-debut

Le Soir

"Visite virtuelle dans les salons du palais Stoclet"

https://www.lesoir.be/555478/article/2023-12-14/visite-virtuelle-dans-les-salons-du-palais-stoclet-videos

RTBF

"Les héritiers attaquent en justice la modélisation du Palais Stoclet par des architectes de La Cambre"

https://www.rtbf.be/article/les-heritiers-attaquent-en-justice-la-mo...lisation-du-palais-stoclet-par-des-architectes-de-la-cambre-11267217

VRT

"Kijk voor het eerst binnen in het luxueuze Stocletpaleis: Brussels werelderfgoed virtueel onthuld"

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/12/13/stocletpaleis-voor-het-eerst-onthuld-aan-het-grote-publiek/#:~:text=Via%20een%20digitale%20reconstructie%20kunnen,opengesteld%20voor%20het%20grote%20publiek.