Architect: Hilde Daem
Alternative Histories: Stephen Taylor Architects on Robbrecht and Daem
1 July 2019
Alternative Histories: Stephen Taylor Architects on Robbrecht and Daem1 July 2019
Our proposal reimagines the Aue Pavilions project by Robbrecht en Daem through an extreme exaggeration and distortion of the original work’s spatial ideas. The ensemble of carriage-like volumes are reimagined as a continuous sinusoidal form which opens up to the park, raised on stumpy pilotis. Instead of a series of… Read More
Alternative Histories: Dow Jones Architects on Robbrecht en Daem
15 March 2019
Alternative Histories: Dow Jones Architects on Robbrecht en Daem15 March 2019
Our starting point is a drawing by Robbrecht en Daem dated 2000: a sketch in red ink of a small pavilion which sits on a platform and is approached by a path raised off the ground. The pitched roof and the space of the platform create a horizontal emphasis, and… Read More