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Stijn Cockx
Stijn Cockx is a Partner at LOW Architects, where he is involved in the design and development of projects across a broad range of scales and programmes, including education, public buildings, housing, and adaptive reuse.
His work is guided by a strong interest in the relationship between architecture, context, and society. Through a collaborative design process, he seeks to develop projects that respond carefully to their surroundings while addressing functional, environmental, and spatial ambitions in an integrated way.
Throughout all project phases, Stijn contributes to the development of clear architectural concepts, with particular attention to proportion, materiality, and construction. He values an iterative design process in which dialogue with clients, consultants, and users plays an important role in achieving well-balanced and enduring architectural solutions.
As a partner at LOW Architects, he helps shape the studio’s architectural direction and commitment to context-driven, sustainable design. His work reflects the practice’s ambition to create thoughtful architecture that is both contemporary and timeless, combining technical rigour with spatial generosity and a strong sense of place.
Tom Hindryckx
Tom Hindryckx is a Partner at LOW Architects, where he leads projects across education, public architecture, and adaptive reuse. His work is defined by a contextual approach that balances spatial quality, technical precision, and long-term sustainability.
His design methodology is rooted in a careful analysis of place, programme, and user needs, resulting in architecture that is both functional and enduring. Throughout the design process, he focuses on developing clear architectural concepts that integrate environmental performance, construction logic, and everyday usability.
Working closely with clients, consultants, and multidisciplinary teams, Tom values collaboration as an essential part of achieving coherent and well-resolved design outcomes. His projects are characterised by a rational design approach, attention to detail, and a strong focus on materiality, craftsmanship, and buildability.
As a partner at LOW Architects, he contributes to the studio’s collective vision of architecture as a socially engaged and context-driven practice. His work reflects a commitment to creating sustainable, carefully considered buildings that respond to contemporary challenges while establishing a lasting relationship between people, place, and the built environment.
Practice Ideology
LOW Architects is a Belgian architecture practice founded in 2005 by partners Tom Hindryckx and Stijn Cockx. The studio works across a wide range of typologies, including education, public buildings, housing, adaptive reuse, and urban interventions.
The practice is driven by a context-based approach in which architecture emerges from a careful understanding of place, programme, and people. Every project is approached as a unique design challenge, seeking to establish meaningful relationships between the built environment and its social, cultural, and physical context.
LOW Architects values a collaborative design process that brings together clients, users, consultants, and contractors from the earliest stages. Through dialogue and research, the studio develops architecture that is clear in concept, precise in execution, and responsive to contemporary challenges.
Rather than pursuing a predetermined formal language, the practice focuses on creating architecture that is appropriate, enduring, and adaptable. Materiality, construction, sustainability, and spatial experience are considered as inseparable aspects of the design process.
The ambition of LOW Architects is to create buildings and places that combine architectural quality with everyday usability. By balancing conceptual clarity with technical rigour, the studio aims to deliver thoughtful and lasting architecture that contributes positively to its users, its surroundings, and the broader built environment.
