08/10/2026
30 years of VIB: space for what’s next! 🧬
From fundamental research to innovations in healthcare and agriculture, VIB has spent three decades turning scientific curiosity into impact. Today, we celebrate VIB’s 30th anniversary - and a story we have helped shape since its earliest days.
In 1997, one of MODULO’s co-founders served as executive architect for VIB’s first building at Ghent’s Technologiepark. MODULO architects subsequently designed an additional floor and a twin building with a central entrance pavilion.
This shared history also includes our involvement in the VIB Center for Molecular Neurology in Antwerp and the Leuven Bio-Incubator.
The latest chapter in this collaboration is VIB’s new headquarters and Bio-Incubator at Tech Lane Ghent, completed in 2024. The building was designed by MODULO architects together with BEEL architecten and ISTEMA, in collaboration with Establis. Flexible labs, adaptable offices and shared meeting spaces give biotech companies room to develop their ideas and grow.
We’re proud to have supported VIB’s growing ambitions for nearly three decades.
Congratulations to the entire VIB community. Here’s to the next chapter! 🥂
Featured project credits:
Client: VIB Life Sciences + PMV
Architecture: MODULO architects + BEEL architecte'
MEP: ISTEMA
Structure: ESTABLIS
Acoustics: De Fonseca by Studibo
Contractor: TM Group Jansen - Cordeel Group - EQUANS-Group
Photography: © Stijn Bollaert