The research seminar is the second in a series of three seminars focused on the pedagogy of transformation in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. This edition will take place at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et du Paysage de Lille on Tuesday, March 25, and Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

The Seminar in Lille is dedicated to the theme of Resources. The sessions bring together a variety of contributions: practical approaches, historical-theoretical reflections, pedagogical proposals.

Floris De Bruyn will present a contribution to the session Resources and Techniques titled The Structure of Transformation. This research explores the relationship between analyzing existing structures and developing a design method for sustainable interventions. It builds on the work of GAFPA, whose approach relies on a typological interpretation of the As Found—a strategy that deconstructs existing contexts to reveal transformation opportunities. The theoretical framework is informed by the writings of Allan Colquhoun and Carlos Martí Aris, advocating a typological approach to design. To illustrate this methodology, the research draws on an expanding Atlas of drawings documenting existing structures, alongside pedagogical experiments in the Primary Structure Studio (KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Ghent), demonstrating the potential of The Structure of Transformation as an ongoing research inquiry.

The Seminar is organized by Véronique Patteeuw and Mathieu Berteloot, ENSAPLille