Niels De Temmerman
Niels De Temmerman
Prof. dr. ir. arch. Niels De Temmerman (°1977) is a member of the Research Lab for Architectural Engineering (AE-LAB) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and is chair of the research group ‘TRANSFORM – Transformable Structures for Sustainable Development’. Currently, he co-chairs the Structural Morphology Group (WG 15) of the IASS (International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures). He is an architectural engineer (2002) with a PhD on deployable structures (2007). His main expertise entails the design and analysis of transformable structures (deployable structures and kit-of-parts systems) for architectural applications.
Supervised PhDs
- The repurposing of our built environment: Circular reconversion of office buildings to housing by Paulien Beeckman
- Reusable building systems: prototyping lightweight and modular temporary structures by Ellen Leemans
- A hybrid deployable system of integrated scissors grids and surface-active structures by Ahmed Soliman
- Enabling circular valorisation of building components and materials: the role of consultancy processes. by Ruben Van Vooren
- Reimagining vacancy. Circular design guidelines for a responsible redevelopment of vacant buildings. by Gabrielle Kawa
- Closing the glass loop. Prototyping a practitioner’s road map to valorise end-of-life architectural flat glass. by Esther Geboes
- Circularity for all. Circular design guidelines towards an accessible qualitative housing market. by Margaux Lespagnard
- Urban circular projects in Brussels : public stakeholders’ approach to develop circularity by Victor Ooghe
- Development of a BIM tool to assess the lifelong impacts of Transformable Design by Camille Vandervaeren
- Protocol for Augmented Parametric Building Information Modelling Components by François Denis
- Actions for circular architecture: the development of actionable knowledge on circular economy for architectural designers through participatory action research by Charlotte Cambier
- Bistable Scissor Structures - Computational Design and Modelling by Liesbeth Arnouts
- Rapidly assembled systems with flexible components: a dialogue between active-bending and transformability by Stijn Brancart
- Deployable Scissor Grids: Geometry and Kinematics by Kelvin Roovers
- Scenario based life cycle costing by Waldo Galle
- Deployable Scissor Structures for Disaster Relief: Multi-Criteria Optimisation and Design for Adaptability by Aushim Koumar
- Using environmental life cycle assessment to inform decision-making for demountable building elements by Mieke Vandenbroucke
- Curved-line folding: a technique to design innovative pliable systems for kinetic architectural applications by Aline Vergauwen
- Parametric Structural Assessment of Deployable Scissor Systems - Optimising the Universal Scissor Component by Lara Alegria Mira
- Enhancing the adaptable capacity of urban fragments: a methodology to integrate Design for Change in sustainable urban projects by Pieter Herthogs
Projects
PhD research
Design and Analysis of Deployable Bar Structures for Mobile Architectural Applications
Date | 2003 - 2007 |