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Title
Year
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
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
[x] 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

Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis

[2019] [Research Project] [Drawing] [Video]
Author(s): Denis Derycke, Jean Trottet, Alexandre Van Dongen

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)