The Upside Dome by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh
One might not noticed any visible dome when visiting the St Michiel Church in Leuven, Belgium. The architects from Gijs Van Vaerenbergh decided to build an art installation that takes this seemingly trivial fact as a starting point and generate the missing dome in a remarkable way.
The installation casts light on the architecture of one of the most prestigious baroque churches of the Low Countries from a contemporary perspective. Using the design technique of the catenary, a new structure emerges in the church. The Upside Dome is a real size scale model, comprised of hundreds of meters of chain, which is literally and figuratively the counterpart of the unfinished dome.
The installation casts light on the architecture of one of the most prestigious baroque churches of the Low Countries from a contemporary perspective. Using the design technique of the catenary, a new structure emerges in the church. The Upside Dome is a real size scale model, comprised of hundreds of meters of chain, which is literally and figuratively the counterpart of the unfinished dome.
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Category:
architecture + interiors,
architecture and interior,
Belgium Architecture,
church design
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