Pieterjan Gijs’ and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh’s Upside Dome
When visiting the St-Michiel Church in Leuven one might overlook that the church has no dome. Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh built an 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.
About the designers:
Pieterjan Gijs (1983) and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh (1983) both studied architecture and work together under the name Gijs Van Vaerenbergh in a multidisciplinary practice with an important focus on public space.
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