KS ARCHITECTES' website redesign: Repositioning a Brussels architecture firm around urban planning regularization

Client: KS ARCHITECTES

Field: Achitecture

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Services: Web Design; Web development

Awards

Awwwards:

Honorable mention

Description

KS ARCHITECTES is a Brussels architecture firm that has spent more than a decade working on new builds and commercial projects, including work for Stellantis dealerships. The firm wanted to shift how it communicates, putting urban planning regularization at the center of its site. We rebuilt the site around that positioning and gave the team a CMS to publish new regularization cases on their own.

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Context

KS ARCHITECTES had run its own site for years through a DIY website builder. The firm knew how to manage a site day to day, but its digital image still read as a general architecture practice, built for new builds and commercial fit-outs. That didn't match where the firm wanted to take its business: regularizing urban planning infractions for homeowners and professionals in Brussels.

The gap wasn't technical skill on the client's side. It was a cohesive digital identity and the web expertise to turn a new positioning into an actual site structure.

The brief

Rebuild the site around urban planning regularization, and structure it for SEO from the ground up.

The firm needed a site that reads as a regularization specialist first, without dropping its other work: pages for professional and residential construction projects still needed to exist alongside the new specialty. Content had to carry real technical detail on each type of infraction, since Brussels urban planning rules are dense and case-specific, and that same content had to rank.

The second constraint sat behind the scenes. KS ARCHITECTES wanted a growing archive of regularization cases they could publish themselves, both to document their expertise and to keep reinforcing their position in the field over time.

Our approach

The work covered UX/UI design and development. The existing logo stayed untouched; the visual identity was extended during the UI phase to give the new positioning a consistent look across pages.

UX/UI Design

The site is organized around three tracks: urban planning regularization, new-build projects for private clients, and new-build projects for professional clients. Regularization carries the main navigation weight, with a catalogue of cases organized by infraction type and commune.

Each case page carries enough technical detail to be useful to someone trying to understand their own situation, laid out so a long, administrative subject stays readable. A dedicated FAQ page answers the questions that come up before a first contact.

Development

The site runs on a CMS built for one purpose: letting KS ARCHITECTES publish new regularization cases without any outside help.

That mattered more here than on a typical project site, since the archive is the mechanism the firm uses to build authority in the field. Since training, the team has already added dozens of new cases on their own.

Deliverables

We delivered the full site, structured around urban planning regularization, with a CMS the team runs independently.

The catalogue of regularization cases is organized by infraction type and commune, with separate pathways for residential and professional visitors. Content is written and structured for search visibility.

Results

Professionals page KS ARCHITECTES' website

The site logged around twenty contact requests in its first weeks online.

On Google's Lighthouse audit it scored 100 on performance, 96 on accessibility, 92 on best practices, and 100 on SEO. The site also won an Awwwards Honorable Mention in January 2026.

Testimonial

We entrusted AKIS.STUDIO with our website, and we're genuinely thrilled with the result. They understood our specific positioning in urban planning regularization in Brussels right away, along with the strategic weight we wanted to put behind it. [...] Their attention to detail and their ability to translate our ideas into a coherent, effective digital structure, and their teaching throughout the process made a real difference.

— Julien Soudant, Co-founder & Architect

Honest take

Regularization content is technical and repetitive by nature: dozens of cases that all describe a similar type of administrative process with different specifics each time.

Structuring that so each page still reads as specific and useful, rather than a template filled in fifty times, was the real design problem here. That's also what makes the archive work as an SEO asset instead of just a list.

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