Commissions for ministries, metropolitan authorities, municipalities and companies, and the European programme I lead today. Each entry names my part, the team and the stage the work reached.
51N4E, Brussels · 2021 to 2025
Territories in Transition grew out of Luxembourg in Transition. The commissions it took on shared a condition. A territory's core environmental questions sat across several authorities, and each could act on its own part alone. I built the service to answer that condition, with an external reading of the whole territory, an agenda that ministries, metropolitan authorities and municipalities could subscribe to, and the evidence, fieldwork and public material to carry it.
I owned its business development, consortia, budgets and delivery, built a team of up to twelve, and ran regular sessions on systems thinking, simulation and client communication whose methods were taken up across the practice. It secured €2.2m in consultancy fees over two years, in five countries, and continued after I left. Between 2017 and 2025 I led more than fifty bids at 51N4E and won close to half of them.
Luxembourg · 2020 to 2022
Instrument adopted
Led 51N4E's contribution to the national consultation for the Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning, wrote its chapters on land take and diet shift, and designed the transferable development rights instrument the minister adopted.
With 2001, LOLA and scientific, environmental and mobility specialists. Read the case
Agglocentre, Luxembourg · 2022 to 2023
Pilots handed over
Framed and led 51N4E's work on a greenbelt for Luxembourg's central agglomeration, read through its ecosystem services, and secured the Vital Belt extension of four field sessions, twenty interviews, four films and a public map. I curated its exhibition in 2023.
With 2001, LOLA and specialist collaborators, for the Ministry of Energy and Spatial Planning.
Agglocentre to Region Sud · 2023
Seven areas named
Directed a resilience study between two agglomerations, commissioning species-movement modelling and reading it with mobility and land-use evidence to name seven areas for intervention.
With 2001, LOLA and specialist collaborators. The movement model was written by a specialist collaborator.
Lyon · 2022 to 2025
Follow-on commissioned
Led four climate-adaptive visions for 2,500 hectares, over a third of it facing obsolescence, proposing compaction over sealed and vacant land in place of expansion on virgin soil. The Métropole commissioned masterplans for the Parc Technologique and the golf course between Chassieu and Bron.
With 2001, LOLA and Ville Ouverte, for the Métropole de Lyon. My involvement ran to January 2025.
Sint-Stevens-Woluwe · image to select
20 ha
Zaventem · 2022
Plan in force
Compared relocation options for Vanpachtenbeke, a recycling company whose site a regional plan had set to close to recycling by 2026, and negotiated the conditions on which it could stay. The plan now in force keeps the business on a smaller footprint, turns the green zone into a landscape park and keeps the farmland in use.
For Vanpachtenbeke, negotiated with the Municipality of Zaventem, residents and the neighbouring hospital.
Parma · 2024
Competition won
Led the winning competition for the regeneration of Chiesi's former industrial site, and proposed a foresight and engagement track that brought the company's departments into one brief before design. The project continues with the client and the design team.
51N4E and TEN for Chiesi Group. Image published by the project team.
Eurocities, Brussels · 2025 to present
Ongoing
Lead two work packages of the EU Cities Mission platform, with grant budgets of nearly €4m to 2030 and task leads in ten partner organisations, and sit on its Executive Committee. Won backing for the City Data Library behind its services and directed the Action Explorer, in beta since September 2026.
Programme Lead since January 2026, previously Strategy Advisor. Read the case
51N4E, Brussels · 2017 to 2021
Genk · from 2018
Approved 2021 and 2024
Led the winning competition and every stage after it. The Open Edge draws new housing towards Winterslag, and the soft grid organises landscape, markers, temporary uses and incubation by footprint and lifetime.
51N4E for the City of Genk and C-Mine.
C-Mine, Genk · 2018 to 2023
Built
Designed, led and won the competition for an artists' compound of ateliers, a residence and a Kunsthalle around a walled garden, 1,800 m², completed in 2023.
51N4E with Point Supreme and Plant en Houtgoed, for the City of Genk and JESTER vzw.
Former military site · image to select
60,000 m²
Vilvoorde · 2019
Built and open
Led the winning bid and brought Horst into the team. My first drawing placed the site's pavilions, gardens, bridge and entrances, and the bridge and entrances were built as drawn. Asiat Park remains open to the public.
Plant en Houtgoed, 51N4E, Horst and Openair, for the City of Vilvoorde.
Tirana and other sites · image to select
9 sites
Albania · around 2019 to 2020
Permitted
Took nine sites from concept to permit over eighteen months, mostly for the City of Tirana, from parks and pavilions around Skanderbeg Square to a feasibility study for the Palace of Culture. Negotiated with the city and directed the design teams, on a portfolio of around €25m in capital value.
51N4E.
Alongside practice · 2018 to 2022
Brussels and Tehran · 2020 to 2021
Exhibited
Co-created with Love Di Marco through the HerMaP programme, and wrote its funding application. When ownership disputes closed the cement works, the inquiry became a distributed one with twenty volunteers. Exhibited at BOZAR and at Aaran Projects in Tehran in 2021.
Immediate and Remote, Tehran, curated by Amirali Ghasemi, exhibition design by 1001 Architecture.
London, Brussels and Copenhagen · 2018 to 2020
Published
Co-founded a programme on how clients, alliances and risk shape what architecture can do. Curated three roundtables at the Architectural Association and edited five issues of Critical Pages. Selected for Future Architecture's 2020 programme.
With Love Di Marco and Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard. Invited authors keep authorship of their texts.
Iran · [year to confirm]
Built
A building and an experimental garden of mostly native and stress-tolerant species, which I designed and built.
Independent project. Photographs from my archive, 2020.