Sarah Melsens

Sarah Melsens obtained a Master of Architectural Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2009. Subsequently, she studied Housing and Urbanism at the Architectural Association (AA school, London). There, she developed her interest in architectural theory and wrote on the subjects of typology as design method and the sociopolitical dynamics of public space.

Since 2010, Sarah Melsens practices as an architect. The duo Melsens & Gigante won the Meesterproef in 2010, a design competition for public projects. In 2013, the same project was nominated for the Belgian price for architecture in the category public space.

In 2014 Sarah Melsens was granted a 12 months FWO Sofina Boel research grant, which allowed her to persue her study on the changing role of actors involved in construction in Pune. She investigated the significance of these changes in the emergence of new dominant typologies and tectonics in the architecture of the city. 

Projects

Master’s thesis