RICHARD ROGERS - Built in 1986

SANAA - Built in 2012

BRUT / AREAL / A2D - Built in 2022

This Thesis, "Eighty-Two Familiar Situations Across the Hesbignon Territory", aims to explore the capacity of the photographic tool to be a means of exploration and analysis of a territory. Before presenting the photographic work as such, the first part of the thesis (Volume 1) deals with the theoretical and technical framework of landscape photography and the exploration of the territory. The analysis of the Hesbaye through photography constitutes the practical and experimental work of this thesis (Volume 2). Through the pictures taken, an imaginary cartography is proposed to the reader. It is through the accumulation of unique situations that this description takes shape, offering an overview of the territory. The characteristics thus identified are grouped by theme. The analysis and survey of the identified situations allow problems related to the use and development of the territory to emerge.

The question of the granary, the food refuge in the event of a crisis and as a constituent part of the landscape. The analysis of the region was based on photographs taken during a 3-days workshop. Those photos were used as an introduction to a broader subject and analysis of the belgian town of Mouscron, and how the town would be able to adapt itself to not so hypothetical future were cities have to sustain its inhabitant with minimal imported products.

Toyo Ito - Built in 2007

MVRDV - Built in 2017

Zaha Hadid - Built in 2011

SANAA - Built in 2008

The Pajottenland is an agricultural region of Belgium, near Brussels. The territorial lecture of the Pajottenland by mapping the region allows us to clearly identify and analyse the different characteristics of this region and its land organisation. The main type of housing is still the traditional housing, but as everywhere else in Flanders, we witness a phenomenon called “Sprawl”. This means that the new constructions are built around the existing roads. This situation creates an uninterrupted built area, splitting up the countryside. We explored the scenario of a future where productive villas would become the new typologies of housing in this region. One of our proposals is to implant the project in a logistics site. As the countryside is already well covered by concrete, this location would allow to save space and bring life in those industrial areas. This series of photos was inspired by the work of Lewis Baltz « The new industrial parks near Irvine California », and was used as a way to identify the difference elements and problematics surrounding those logistic sites.

CALATRAVA - Built in 2009