Aldo van Eycks Sonsbeek pavilion is a very powerful spatial organization because of its capacity of specifying space and providing possibilities at the same time. It can be seen as a continues space, despite the limitations. The walls do not separate but they divide, they order instead of segregate. They provide rather than delimitate. These walls make you wander, they do not enclose you; these walls paradoxically ‘open up’ a spatial arrangement. What we have here is not a solid wall, but a soft wall.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sonsbeek pavilion: a soft wall
Aldo van Eycks Sonsbeek pavilion is a very powerful spatial organization because of its capacity of specifying space and providing possibilities at the same time. It can be seen as a continues space, despite the limitations. The walls do not separate but they divide, they order instead of segregate. They provide rather than delimitate. These walls make you wander, they do not enclose you; these walls paradoxically ‘open up’ a spatial arrangement. What we have here is not a solid wall, but a soft wall.
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