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Title
Year
Virtual Systems – Actual Objects: Rendition of Morphosis ' Compositional Principles in the mid 1980s
2018
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley I/II
2018
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand’s Clockwork
2018
Le squelette de la Maison du Peuple : hypothèse de restitution 3D
2017
Espaces de processus/Espaces d'analyse. Description graphique de mécanismes géométriques compositionnels et représentationnels. Los Angeles dans les années 1980 : morceaux choisis
2017
Jean Prouvé - 3D short movies
2016
Caractérisation de formes architecturales. Une approche expérimentale intégrant complexité et intelligibilité des représentations numériques
2016
Study and Rendition of Jean-Baptiste Hourlier's projection drawings
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process IV
2016
Morphosis Drawings and Models in the Mid 1980s: Graphic Description of Graphic Thinking
2016
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process III
2015
Architecture « résolument » numérique : Paradigm Shift vs. paradigme albertien ?
2015
Immeuble Bessonneau à Casablanca - Hypothèse de restitution de l’état originel
2015
Reduce to Understand: a Challenge for Analysis and Three-dimensional Documentation of Architecture
2015
Analyse architecturale, modélisation 3D et narration filmique : un regard original sur quelques objets corbuséens
2015
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand - Representation as Instrument
2015
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process II
2014
Education in Architectural Analysis through Hybrid Graphic Means: a Setup for Critical Thinking
2014
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process I
2013
Aménagement du Hall des Beaux-Arts par Lucien-Jacques Baucher
2013
Baucher-Blondel-Filiponne - 3D short movies
2012
La complexité inhérente aux modèles numériques et le paradigme de la représentation architecturale - Brèves considérations sur les pratiques contemporaines
2012
Jacques Dupuis & Albert Bontridder - 3D short movies
2011
Photomodélisation de la Maison de Verre de Paul-Amaury Michel
2010
Van Buuren House Orthophotographic Survey
2009
Al Taybeh 3D Photogrammetric Survey
2008
Architectural analysis and relevance of digital representation techniques - An educational experiment
2007
Peter Eisenman's Houses I to X
2002
EXPLORER: A Procedural Modeler Based on Architectural Knowledge
1997
POV-Ray: architectural analysis and computer rendering
1995

Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis

Collaborating institution: Musée Horta
Partner: PANORAMA (research platform, ULB)
Supporting Organizations: Fonds Baillet-Latour, ULB
Budget: 73.000 €

Destroyed in 1965, Victor Horta’s Maison du Peuple was an iconic piece of Brussels’ built heritage. If the principal features of the project were well know, a lot of aspects of its original state were obscure (and some still are). In 2015, AlICe lab and the Horta Museum started a thorough study of the building through 3D modeling, That new chapter of the research about the Maison du Peuple also included some unexplored archival fonds, the 3D digitization of a lot of the remaining architectonic elements, as well as the supervision of several renowned experts. From 2015 to 2018, the research has mainly been undertaken through students’ Master thesis, each of them focusing on a very specific matter or room of the disappeared building. In 2019, the research benefited from a Fonds Baillet-Latour grant, as well as some financial support from the ULB (FER). Then, four researcher carried on the project so as to produce a first finalized result that is now accessible through a 12 minute 3D movie and a virtual tour.
The Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis was nominated for the Europa Nostra Ilucidare Special prize in heritage-led innovation in 2021. The project is also part of the 4th Inventory of remarkable projects listed by the Institut Culturel d'Architcture Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Research team:
Jean Trottet (Research & 3D modeling, ULB)
Denis Derycke (Scientifique supervision & project lead, ULB)
Benjamin Zurstrassen (Scientifique supervision, Horta Museum)
Françoise Aubry (Scientifique supervision, Horta Museum)
Alexandre Van Dongen (Aerial & terrestrial 3D digitization of the urban context, ULB)
Claire Fontaine (Restorer and color expert)
Michel Provost (Ancient structures expert, ULB-VUB)
Ine Wouters (Ancient structures expert, VUB)
Henry-Louis Guillaume (Virtual tour, ULB)
Thomas Lancz (Post-production)

Based on the Master thesis of the following students:
Megan De Prins (ULB-VUB), David Facho Santos (ULB), Jérémy Moreau (ULB), Marine Serrette (ULB), Jean Trottet (ULB), Alice Leclercq (ULB), Boris Douala Dzotsie (ULB), Robin Dufayard (ULB).

Click here to access to the virtual tour of the Maison du Peuple


Presentation of the project on the Belgian television news (RTBF)