AlICe

Explore

Research →
Teaching →
Media →
Title
Year
Beyond the narrative: a workflow for 3D restitution of built heritage
2024
The Missing Camera or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oblique Projection
2024
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
[x] Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
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: One-Click Standard Orthographic and Oblique Projection Cameras
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

Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo

[2024] [Research Project] [Drawing] [Photography] [3D model]
Author(s): David Lo Buglio, Michel Lefèvre, Alexandre Van Dongen

2021- ...

The research carried out by the AlICe laboratory in the Lovo massif (DRC) is part of a research programme led by archaeologist G. Heilmich on rock art in the Democratic Republic of Congo (https://exposition-lovo.com). More specifically, these studies aim to ‘integrate the rock art sites into the archaeological landscape of the Lovo massif and understand how they relate to the other sites inventoried. The aim is to provide new understanding of the occupation of the massif’.

The challenge for researchers in the AlICe laboratory is to use their knowledge and expertise in surveying and 3D digitisation to study this archaeological landscape. Alongside the project, this research aims to integrate a methodological approach for the acquisition, representation and characterisation of an anthropised architectural and natural landscape. Through the production of surveys (in the visible and non-visible (thermal) spectrum) carried out at different scales, ranging from rocky massifs and their landscape context covering more than 200ha to the digitisation of burials or archaeological artefacts, the first step is to create a digital map, whose granularity reflects the scales of the study. This multi-scalar observation of the site is an important phase in reconstructing the archaeological landscape of the Kongo kingdom (15th century) and its occupation of the Lovo massif.

Beyond the attention paid to the scale of the archaeological landscape, a significant part of the surveys focused on intermediate scales (such as that of the habitat, with regard to topography and wetlands) or the scale of the fragment, as shown by the acquisitions made of burials.

Research team (ULB):

  • Michel Lefèvre (Researcher, ULB)
  • David Lo Buglio (Researcher & project coordinator for ULB)
  • Alexandre Van Dongen (Researcher, ULB)

Research team (not ULB):

  • Geoffroy Heimlich (Archaeologist, General project leader, laboratoire TRACES - UMR 5608 CNRS)
  • Clément Mambu Nsangathi (Head Curator of the Archaeology Section, Institut des musées nationaux du Congo)
  • Santos Kavumbu (Researcher, Institut des musées nationaux du Congo)
  • Michel Grenet (Prehistoric archaeologist, laboratoire LAMPEA - UMR 7269 CNRS)
  • Renato Saleri (Researcher, laboratoire MAP Aria CNRS)
  • Thomas Freteur (Videographer/ photographer)

Second mission in 2023:

First mission in 2021: