Research in LOCI includes the following research groups:
- Culture and habitat: Theory, Drawing, History, Design
- laboratory analysis architecture www.lelaa.be
- Laboratory Theory of systems in architecture www.tsa-lab.be
- Building Techniques and Architectural Engineering
- Territorial development, landscape and urban planning
- Center for Research and Studies for Territorial Action www.creat-uclouvain.be
- Metrolab Brussels: www.metrolab.brussels
- Uses&Spaces
- LoCiLoCaL
- Mobility & Urbanism
- URBASUDS
The main research topics in LOCI are:
- Theory of architecture, including representation tools integrating digital technologies
- Heritage, with a triple aim of conservation, reallocation and adaptation to energy requirements as well as lessons from the design of structures over time
- Modeling as a method for calculating structures as well as for the purpose of developing prospective scenarios
- Research by design, proposing hypotheses for architectural, engineering and spatial mutation
- New forms of production and montage of architectural and territorial projects in their environmental, economic, legal, social and cultural aspects
- Specified performance structures of buildings using natural or conventional materials as well as basic and applied research on the physical parameters of buildings (heat, light, acoustics, ventilation, air quality) affecting comfort, health and physical, physiological and psychological well-being of the occupants
- Minimal and sustainable resource utilization strategies that take into account the complete life cycle of built and non-built environments at different scales
- Composition of spaces and their densification / dedensification, their structuring re-articulating among others the mobilities and the urbanism, the modalities of development of the territories
- Changing populations and socio-spatial inequalities impacting housing and territorial cohesion