DARCH Research Day // ETHZ
Featuring guest speakers Prof. Dr. Amy Kulper (UCL), Prof. Dr. Albena Yaneva (Politecnico di Torino) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Ibáñez (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), the event explores methods and research practices. Open to all: PhDs, PostDocs, faculty, and Master's students.
Organised by doctoral students from all D-ARCH Institutes: Dragoș Ghioca, ITA / Nina Irmert, IDB / Raquel Jerobon, LUS / Maria Kouvari, IDB / Radu Remus Macovei, gta / Francisco Moura Veiga, IEA / Luca Okay Can, gta
2025
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Towards a Mainstream Practice of Reuse
Contribution to the SBE25 conference on a methodology for gathering and translating qualitative data into Agent-Based Models, aimed at simulating scenarios to support the broader market adoption of second-hand construction components.
Advised by Prof. Sacha Menz (ETH Zürich) and Prof. Dr. Thaleia Konstantinou (TU DELFT).
2025
Visually Illiterate // Essay
trans magazin 46 - SPOLIA
eds. Maud Haas, Vitus Michel, Simon Nougué, Gabriela Sad, gta verlag, ETH Zürich
2025
A&T Doctoral Fellow at ETH ZÜRICH
The Case for Reuse:
From Agents to Urban Systems
Bauprozess // ITA // D-ARCH // ETHZ
2023 - 2027
Petite Maison Publication
“The publication, following the completion of the project, tells the story of how 40 partners, public and private, have been actively collaborating under the lead of the University of Luxembourg for about three years to figure out how to design and build in a way, which allows to transform, deconstruct, dis- and reassemble again.”
2023
Petite Maison // Research-in-Practice
How can we foster the practice of reuse in architecture?
Petite Maison was part of the European Capital of Culture 2022, led by Carole Schmit and assisted by Dragos Ghioca, architect and researcher-in-practice at the University of Luxembourg.
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2021 - 2023
Freilandstadt Vision
Coordinated by Prof. Florian Hertweck (ed.) published in
Architecture on Common Ground
The Question of Land: Positions and Models
Lars Müller Publishers 2020
2019 - 2020
Diploma 2019 / Halle des Soufflantes
Diploma project on the Adaptive Reuse of the Halle Des Soufflantes (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) awarded by the Order of Architects and Engineers in Luxembourg. The diploma was advised by Prof. Peter Swinnen (CRIT.CC) and Prof. Carole Schmit (POLARIS) at the University of Luxembourg, Master`s Program in Architecture.
2020
DRAGOS GHIOCA
REUS is the personal webpage of Dragos Ghioca, architect and researcher, established in Zurich, CH.
Since October 2023, I have been an A&T Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture at the ETH Zurich. The focus of my work is on the practice of reusing the existing material stock as an alternative to the complete reliance on extractive practices.
After graduating from the Master’s Program in Architecture (MARCH, UniLu 2019), I gained professional experience in architectural offices in Luxembourg. From 2021 to 2023, I joined the Petite Maison project, federated by the University of Luxembourg, as part of the European Capital of Culture 2022 program.
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