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Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2024
[x] Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
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
From projection to building and vice versa
2023
Anthropic Units in Baroque Architecture, the Gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Roman Palm
2023
Crossed Experimentations of Low-Altitude Surveys For The Detection Of Buried Structures
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Towards a multi-scale semantic characterization of the built heritage
2021
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2020
Exploitation des numérisations pour l'analyse urbaine en contexte archéologique
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
Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique
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
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
Architectural Analysis & Computer Process III
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
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
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
Architectural analysis and relevance of digital representation techniques - An educational experiment
2007
Peter Eisenman's Houses I to X
2002

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: