This Church in Belgium Was Brilliantly Designed to Look Different From All Angles
by N/A, 9 years ago |
2 min read
Belgian architect group, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, built a church in Belgium, and it's pretty plain...from certain angles.
From others, the structure reveals itself to be something else entirely - a building that's almost entirely see through. The project, named "Reading Between the Lines," is a composition of 100 layers of stacked steel, that are equidistantly staggered in a way that illusively change in appearance based on where the viewer is standing.
Looks like a pretty normal, quaint little church right?
Wrong...oh so wrong.
This is most certainly not your normal church. Not even close.
When looking at it laterally, the structure is entirely see-through.
But when looking at it head on, it appears much denser.
The more vertical the view, the less see-through it becomes.
And because it's made of steel, the structure also weighs a whopping 30 tons.
The intent behind its design, was for the church to be tangibly present...
But also visually absent at the same time.
Year-round, it attracts quite the crowd of mesmerized spectators...
And they're all trying to read between the lines.
But sometimes, that can be easier said than done.
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Do not show me this again