SST/LOCI Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme (LOCI)
SST/LAB Louvain research institute for Landscape, Architecture, Built environment (LAB)
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rue du Glategnies 6
7500 Tournai
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Maider Llaguno-Munitxa is an architect and Associate Professor of Digital Architecture and Environmental Design at UCLouvain, within the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (LOCI), and the Louvain Institute of Landscape, Architecture and Built Environment (LAB). She is a member of the Architecture et Climat group and leads the Urban Science, Climate and Health team. Her research work focuses on the study of data science and digital design tools for the development of novel design practices that aim to improve urban environmental quality and health.
Prior to joining UCLouvain, Maider was an assistant professor at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University, and associate research scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Maider is also partner at the architecture and urban design office AZPML.
Maider obtained her PhD from the Institute of Technology in Architecture ETH Zurich in October 2016. Her research topic focused on the study of architecture and urban design strategies to modulate the urban environment, it's microclimate and air quality. Maider has been recently recipient of the SOM Foundation European Research Prize, GSAPP Columbia University incubator prize, and the Land Der Ideen_Beyond Bauhaus Prototyping the Future Award. Maider has been the awardee of numerous research funding grants from the European Commission, the FNRS, Princeton University, and the Research Unit of the Brussels-Capital Region, amongst others.
Tsionas, Ioannis ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Stephan, André. Environmental effects of urban wind energy harvesting: a review. In: Buildings and Cities, Vol. 6, no.1, p. 1-24 (2025). doi:10.5334/bc.491.
Cleven, Sheldon ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Claeys, Damien. Le corps en architecture à l'ère des technologies immersives. Hybrider le dessin analogique et les pratiques computationnelles en conception. Séminaire annuel de l'École doctorale thématique Architecture, Urbanisme, Ingénierie architecturale et urbaine (Charleroi, 24/01/2025).
Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Burgueno-Diaz, A ; Altomonte, Sergio ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Mapping street lighting: Illuminance characterization in urban squares in the Brussels Capital Region. CISBAT 2025 - The Built Environment in Transition (Lausanne, Switzerland, du 03/09/2025 au 05/09/2025). In: CISBAT 2025 Conference Proceedings, 2025.
Ntassiou, Konstantina ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Bossard, Alexandre ; Cavalieri, Chiara ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. 3-dimensional Geospatial Analysis And Visualization For Urban Environmental Assessments: A Case Study Of A Neighborhood Located In The Brussels Capital Region. In: AMPS proceedings series, Vol. 40, no.1, p. 589 (2024).
Firas Gerges ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Mark A.Zondlo ; Elie Bou-Zeid. Weather and the City: Machine Learning for Predicting and Attributing Fine Scale Air Quality to Meteorological and Urban Determinants. In: Weather and the City: Machine Learning for Predicting and Attributing Fine Scale Air Quality to Meteorological and Urban Determi, Vol. 58, no.12, p. 6313-6325 (2024). doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c00783.
Pandya, Pranav ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; LACROIX, Emilie ; Gabriele Manoli. Modeling the Interplay between Urban Environmental Characteristics and Cyclist Route Preferences. European Geophysics Union 2024. In: Modeling the Interplay between Urban Environmental Characteristics and Cyclist Route Preferences, Vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1-7 (2024). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-18514.
Tsionas, Ioannis ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Stephan, André ; Alessandro Gambale ; Sampath Kumar ; Gabriele Mosca. Review of the environmental effects of deploying small wind turbines in cities. World Sustainable Built Environment 2024 (du 12/07/2024 au 14/07/2024). In: Review of the environmental effects of deploying small wind turbines in cities, Vol. 1363, no.12, p. 1-7 (2024). doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1363/1/012104.
Firas Gerges ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; mark a.zondlo ; michel boufadel ; elie bou-zeid. Uncovering the Drivers of Urban Air Pollution Using Spatial Machine Learning for Improved Analysis and Forecasting. American Geophysics Union (Baltimore, du 28/01/2024 au 01/02/2024). In: Uncovering the Drivers of Urban Air Pollution Using Spatial Machine Learning for Improved Analysis and Forecasting, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 1-7 (2024).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bou-Zeid, Elie. Role of Vehicular Emissions in Urban Air Quality: the COVID-19 Lockdown Experiment. In: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, (2021).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Site surveying. In: Lieux dits, , no.23, p. 14-21 (2023). doi:10.14428/ld.vi23.76823.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Alejandro Burgueño-Díaz ; Guillet, Alain. Tree View Assessment: Survey of Two Municipalities Located in the Brussels Capital Region. In: Arboricultural Journal : the international journal of urban forestry, (2023). doi:10.48044/jauf.2023.030 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Raghunathan Srikumar Sampath Kumar ; Gabriele Mosca ; Ioannis Tsionas ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Stephan, André ; Alessandro Gambale. A Computational Fluid Dynamics based framework to assess the wind energy potential of an urban landscape: A case study in Brussels. European Geophysics Union 2023 (Vienna, du 24/04/2023 au 28/04/2023). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15617.
Alessandro Gambale ; S.K. Raghunathan Srikumar ; G. Mosca ; Tsionas, Ioannis ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Stephan, André. A data-driven surrogate model framework based on CFD simulations to accelerate wind energy yield assessment. 16th International Conference on Wind Engineering (Accepté/Sous presse).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Air de Jeux - Air pollution in the Brussels Capital Region. https://brite-research.be/brite-workshop-on-air-quality-in-urban-environments-initiatives-opportunities-and-challenges (BRITE Workshop, 12/06/2023).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Citizens measure. Ecole Doctorale Géographie ULiege (Liege, 21/09/2023).
Pandya, Pranav ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; Manoli, Gabriele ; Lacroix, Emilie. Cycling Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility: Thermal Comfort and Well-being in Diverse Neighborhoods of Brussels. Circle U (UCLouvain, du 23/11/2023 au 24/11/2023).
Tsionas, Ioannis ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Stephan, André ; Srikumar, Sampath Kumar Raghunathan ; Mosca, Gabriele ; Gambale, Alessandro. Deploying Small Urban Wind Turbines. U Circle (UCLouvain, du 23/11/2023 au 24/11/2023).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. La numérisation des environnements urbains. Virtual/augmented reality & modelisation (Architecture In Brussels (arib), 23/03/2023).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; Grade, Stephane ; Lacroix, Emilie ; Letesson, Clément ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Altomonte, Sergio ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Guillet, Alain. Urban forest views for stress level reduction. 18th Healthy Buildings Europe Conference -ISIAQ - Healthy Buildings Europe 2023 (Aachen, du 11/06/2023 au 14/06/2023).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; Stéphane Grade ; Lacroix, Emilie ; Letesson, Clément ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Altomonte, Sergio ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Guillet, Alain. Urban forest views for stress level reduction. 18th Healthy Buildings Europe Conference (Aachen, du 11/06/2023 au 14/06/2023). In: ISIAQ - Healthy Buildings Europe 2023.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bogosian, Biayna. XR Technologies for Enhancing Urban Environmental Analysis and Public Engagement. Radical Entanglements: Architectures, Societies, Environments, Politics (Endhoven, 31/08/2023).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; Grade, Stephane ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Letesson, Clement ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Altomonte, Sergio ; Lacroix, Emilie ; Bogosian, Biayna ; Mun, Kris ; Macagno, Eduardo. 360° image and video urban scene immersions to evaluate the role of urban green infrastructure in stress level reduction.. AUM2022 (Cambridge University - Martin Centre: Sustainable buildings and cities, du 30/06/2022 au 01/07/2022).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Burgueño Díaz, Alejandro. Aerial and pedestrian level green infrastructure survey of 12 squares located in Brussels Capital Region. UFFU Conference 2022 (KU Leuven, du 25/07/2022 au 27/07/2022).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Burgueño-Diaz, Alejandro. Aerial and pedestrian level green infrastructure survey of 12 squares located in Brussels Capital Region. UFFU Conference 2022. In: UFFU'22 – Urban Forests, Forest Urbanisms & Global Warming, 2022 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bou-Zeid, Elie ; Paula Rueda ; Xin Shu. Citizen-science urban environmental monitoring for the development of an inter-urban environmental prediction model for the city of Los Angeles. European Geophysics Union (Vienna, du 23/05/2022 au 27/06/2022).
Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Nature-based Solutions for Industrial Logistic Parks. SBEfin2022 Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Built Environment.
Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Nature-based Solutions for Industrial Logistic Parks. SBEfin2022 Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Built Environment (SBEfin2022) 23/11/2022 - 25/11/2022 Online (du 23/11/2022 au 25/11/2022). In: SBEfin2022 Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Built Environment (SBEfin2022) 23/11/2022 - 25/11/2022 Online, (2022). doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012007.
Vander Meulen, Marie ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Pedestrian Level Greenery Perception quantification. European Geophysics Union (Vienna, du 23/05/2022 au 27/05/2022).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; Grade, Stephane ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Letesson, Clément ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Altomonte, Sergio ; Lacroix, Emilie ; Bogosian, Biayna ; Mun, Kris ; Macagno, Eduardo. Quantifying stress level reduction induced by urban greenery perception. SBEfin2022 Emerging Concepts for Sustainable Built Environment.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Edwards, Martin ; Grade, Stephan ; Vander Meulen, Marie ; Letesson, Clement ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Altomonte, Sergio ; Lacroix, Emilie ; Bogosian, Biayna ; Mun, Kris ; Macagno, Eduardo. Quantifying stress level reduction induced by urban greenery perception. SBEfin EMERGING CONCEPTS FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. In: SBEFIN 2022, 2022 (Accepté/Sous presse).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Agudo Sierra, Elena ; Alejandro Burgueño-Diaz. Urban Green Infrastructure Visual Accessibility Study in the City of Brussels. American Geophysics Union (Chicago, du 12/12/2022 au 16/12/2022) (Soumis).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bou-Zeid, Elie. Influence of vehicular road emissions on urban air quality examined through high spatio-temporal resolution data during the COVID-19 lockdown. AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (New Orleans, LA, du 13/12/2021 au 17/12/2021).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Shu, Xin ; Mistry, Bhavan. Multivariate analysis of the influence between building design and energy performance, socio-demographic metrics, and the intra-urban environment. IBPC Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Copenhagen , du 25/08/2021 au 27/08/2021).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Shu, Xin ; Mistry, Bhavan. Multivariate analysis of the influence between building design and energy performance, socio-demographic metrics, and the intra-urban environment. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (du 25/08/2021 au 27/08/2021). In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 2069 (2021). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2069/1/012056.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Shu, Xin. Spatial urban air quality prediction model utilizing high spatiotemporal resolution direct and remote sensing, socio-demographic and urban fabric data. AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (du 13/12/2021 au 17/12/2021).
Wang, Jing ; Bou-Zeid, Elie ; Li, Qi ; Giometto, Marco Giovanni= ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Understanding the Extreme Winds over Built Surfaces. AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (New Orleans, LA, du 13/01/2022 au 17/01/2022).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. The environmental neighborhoods of cities and their spatial extent. In: Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 15, no. 7. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab8d7e.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Opportunistic Mobile Urban Sensing Technologies. American Meteorological Society (Boston) (Soumis).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bou-Zeid, Elie. Sensing the Environmental Neighborhoods. DigitalFUTURES The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (Shanghai, du 05/07/2020 au 06/07/2020).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Sensing the Environmental Neighborhoods. In: Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES The 2nd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2020), Springer, 2020. 978-981-33-4399-3, 124-133. doi:10.1007/978-981-33-4400-6_12.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. The Role of Vehicular Road Emissions in Urban Air Quality. SENVAR. 20th Sustainable, Environment and Architecture.
Elie Bou-Zeid ; Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. The environmental neighborhoods of cities and their spatial extent. Americal Metereological Society (Boston, du 11/01/2020 au 15/01/2020).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. The environmental neighborhoods of cities and their spatial extent; A study of New York City and Greater London. Seoul 2020 Big Data Forum (Soumis).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. The environmental neighborhoods of cities and their spatial extent. American Geophysical Union (San Francisco) (Soumis).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bou-Zeid, Elie. Shaping buildings to promote street ventilation: A large-eddy simulation study. In: Urban Climate, Vol. 26, p. 76-94 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2018.08.006.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Blending Hardware and Software Innovations in Mobile Urban Sensing Technologies. American Meteorological Society 98th meeting (Soumis).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Design of Urban Topography to Promote Street Ventilation. ICUC. 10th International Conference in Urban Climate (Soumis).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Sensing and Information Technologies for the Environment (SITE); Hardware and Software Innovations in Mobile Sensing Technologies. 7th International Building Physics Conference (Syracuse, du 26/09/2018 au 29/09/2018).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Sensing and Information Technologies for the Environment (SITE); Hardware and Software Innovations in Mobile Sensing Technologies. International Building Physics Conference (Syracuse). In: 7th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2018), Jianshun Zhang; Edward Bogucz; Cliff Davidson; Elizabeth Krietmeyer: Syracuse, 2018. 9781510816787. doi:10.14305/ibpc.2018.gb-1.05.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Hurbileko azterketan oinarritutako arkitektura. In: ALDIRI, Vol. 31, p. 9-13 (2017).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bou-Zeid, Elie ; Hultmark, Marcus. The influence of building geometry on street canyon air flow: Validation of large eddy simulations against wind tunnel experiments. In: Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 165, no. 1, p. 115-130 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2017.03.007.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Collective Mobile Sensing for Urban Health. ACSA. Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. In: ACSA. Building for Health & Well-Being, Vol. 1, p. 62-70 (2016).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bogosian, Biayna. Sensing Urban Microclimates. IAAC - Responsive Cities (du 16/09/2016 au 17/09/2016).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Robot-Aided Interactive Design for Wind Tunnel Experiments. In: Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference, Vol. 418, no.1, p. 365-377 (2015). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27149-1_29.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider ; Bogosian, Biayna. Sensing Urban Microclimates. Acadia 2015 Conference: Computational Ecologies (du 22/10/2015 au 24/10/2015).
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Sensing Urban Microclimates. ACADIA. Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture 2015 International Conference. Computational Ecologies. In: ACADIA. Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture, 2015. 978-0-692-53726-8. doi:10.1002/adfm.201303288.
Llaguno-Munitxa, Maider. Climate-Oriented Design. In: Architectural Review Asia Pacific - Authority, Vol. 134, no.1, p. 1 (2014).