BC
BC stands for Brussels Cooperation. It includes BC architects and BC studies and BC materials. Its specific trajectory illustrates how it has grown over the last 10 years as an organic organisation, embedded within place and people. Created in 2012 as a hybrid office, BC is questioning the boundaries of architecture in a do-ers manner. With three different legal entities, the team engages in a variety of experimental projects through which it designs bio-regional and circular architecture, researches educational and construction processes and produces new building materials by using local waste streams such as excavated earth.
Laurens Bekemans Co-founder BC I Junior Professor
is the junior professor of Act of Building since March 2022. Bekemans is an architect and co-founder of the Brussels-based practices BC architects & studies and BC Materials. He was lecturer from 2013 to 2022 at the Faculty of Architecture of KULeuven (Belgium) and visiting lecturer at the German University of technology (Oman) from 2016 to 2017.
Theresa Zschäbitz BC architects I Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin I Research Associate
is a junior architect and collaborator at Brussels-based BC architects & studies and Research Associate at the act of building junior professorship — she studied at RWTH Aachen where she graduated in February 2022 as a Master of Science with international Honors, as well as at Paris Val-de-Seine and at KU Leuven Sint Lucas Campus in Brussels. She has gained experience in teaching as a tutor for design studios and modelmaking labs at AiB Bonn and iu university during her studies and has worked in several offices like kadawittfeld Architektur in Aachen as well as Gonzalez Haase AAS and Tanja Linke Architekten in Berlin.
Hannah Herrmann Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin I Research Associate
is a Research Associate at the act of building junior professorship. She studied architecture at TU Darmstadt, EPF Lausanne, and KU Leuven in Brussels, where she completed her Master’s degree in 2023. From November 2023 to October 2025, she was a Research Associate at the Department of Design and Building Construction at TU Darmstadt, conducting research on timber–earth hybrid slabs and teaching the fundamentals of construction and its interplay with architectural design. She has gained practical experience, among others, at Waechter + Waechter Architekten BDA in Darmstadt, LieslBaumeister Architektinnen in Frankfurt, and atelier abc in Mannheim.
Bennet Tielker Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter I Research Associate
is a Research Associate at the act of building junior professorship. He studied architecture at LU Hannover and MSA Münster, where he completed his Master’s degree in 2025. He has gained experience in teaching as a tutor for construction and design studios at several chairs during his studies, most recently for Prof. Anja Rosen at the chair for Circular Construction at MSA Münster. He has gained practical experience at SMAQ Architektur und Stadt in Berlin as well as BC architects in Brussels
Felipe Barrera Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
is a student assistant at the Act of Building junior professorship at RWTH Aachen University since October 2023. Felipe has been studying Architecture at RWTH Aachen since 2020. During this time, he has also spent a semester studying in Madrid at the UPM and worked remotely for an architecture studio in Rio de Janeiro. After completing his Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in 2024 at RWTH Aachen, he interned for one year in Basel before returning back to the RWTH for the Master’s degree (since 2025).
Hanna Obereiner Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
is a student assistant at the Act of Building junior professorship at RWTH Aachen University since April 2025. After completing her Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in 2022 at RWTH Aachen, she interned for half a year in Vienna before returning back to the RWTH for the Master’s degree (since 2023). Alongside her studies she also works in an architecture studio in Aachen and is part of the planning of the student career event “Building Relations”.
Keno Luxenburger Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
is a student assistant at the Act of Building junior professorship at RWTH Aachen University since November 2025. Keno has been studying Architecture at RWTH Aachen since 2019. After completing his Bachelor’s degree (B. Sc.) in 2022 at RWTH Aachen, he interned for half a year at an architecture studio in Vienna. He is studying for his Master’s degree since 2023.
Kata Götz Sekretariat I Secretary
Kata Götz has studied Language Sciences in Hungary. Since then she worked for different big companies in Rotterdam, NL and in several cities in Germany, before she started working at RWTH in 2021. Next to her employment at our new junior professorship she also working in the department of Architecture Theory with Prof. Axel Sowa in the same position.
Ken De Cooman Co-founder BC I Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter I Research Associate
is a philosopher and architect and co-founder of BC Architects & Studies and BC Materials and Research Associate at the act of building junior professorship. He holds a Masters in Philosophy and Architecture, and a Candidate in Psychology; Ken De Cooman has taught at EiABC, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia and KULeuven and UHasselt, Belgium. He has reflected on architectural practice and material culture in OASE, Domus, Archined and others.
Nicolas Coeckelberghs Co-founder BC
is an architect / earth builder and co-founder of BC Architects & Studies and BC Materials. He holds a Master in Architecture and a Postmaster in earthen architecture from CRAterre, France. In 2018 and 2019, he was a visiting lecturer at the German University of Technology (GUtech) in Oman and since 2016 he has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at UHasselt, Belgium.
Jasper Van Der Linden BC materials
is an architect and collaborator of BC materials – he studied at KUleuven where he graduated magna cum laude in the international master of architecture, as well as studies in Istanbul and Buenos Aires. For BC materials and BC studies, he is in charge of the sensibilisation, organising lectures and workshops around earth and bio-based materials. He also teaches within the postgraduate Building Beyond Borders at UHasselt, and collaborates with a variety of (inter-)national universities to organize educational workshops. He will now also share this experience in form of two electives at RWTH Aachen.
Hannah Lemler Hilfswissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter I Research Assistant
is research assistant at the Act of Building junior professorship at RWTH Aachen University since September 2023. After completing her Bachelor’s degree (B. Sc.) in 2020 at RWTH Aachen, she studied for a semester in Barcelona at the ETSAV as part of an Erasmus stay. Afterwards she interned for a year at an architecture cooperative in Barcelona. Besides studying her Master’s degree (since 2020) she works for the Reiff International Office too.
Josua de Fallois Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
is a student assistant at the Act of Building junior professorship at RWTH Aachen University since October 2023. Josua has been studying Architecture (B.Sc.) at RWTH Aachen since 2020. During this time, he has also spent a semester studying at UPV Valencia.
Johanna Fels Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
is a student assistant at the Act of Building junior professorship at RWTH Aachen University since April 2023. Johanna has been studying Architecture (B.Sc.) at RWTH Aachen since 2019. During this time, she has also spent a semester studying in Lausanne at the EPFL and interned at an architecture office in Berlin.
previous members
Theresa Zschäbitz Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter / Research Associate
Hannah Lemler Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
Josua de Fallois Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
Johanna Fels Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
Lea Knoch Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant
Henning Storch Hilfswissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter I Research Assistant
Finn Marcelli Studentische Hilfskraft I Student Assistant