Ecotron

UHasselt Field Research Centre, 2020

The Ecotron is part of the Field Research Centre, located in the Hoge Kempen National Park. The UHasselt Ecotron is a large scale research infrastructure that allows for sophisticated state-of-the-art controlled climate experiments, to study the effects of climate, and climate change on ecosystem functioning. It provides insight into the impact of climate on a given ecosystem that cannot be gained by field experiments (too complex) neither controlled laboratory experiments (too reductive).
We conceived the way visitors can experience and understand the operation of the research centre.