Ken De Cooman is co-founder of BC Architects, Studies and Materials. With these companies, BC starts from architecture, over research, expertise and experiment, towards material production and contracting. The use of local, circular materials in open construction processes has led to innovative public and private buildings on the European and African continent. 

BC architects renovates buildings using bio-sourced, geo-sourced and urban-sourced materials. BC currently collectively holds the junior professorship at RWTH Aachen, called “the act of building”, and runs the postgraduate programme “Building Beyond Borders” at Uhasselt.