Aldo van Eyck Sculpture Pavilion Sonsbeek Park, rebuilt - 1966-2006
The Aldo van Eyck pavilion in the sculpture garden the Kröller Müller Museum is as faithful as possible to reproduce the temporary pavilion that this Dutch architect designed in 1965-1966 for the 5th International sculpture exhibition ’66 in Arnhem. As in all the designs of Van Eyck, who advocates a ‘humane architecture,’ circles and curves play an essential role in the building. The pavilion consists of six parallel walls of light grey breeze blocks, which create corridors. In these five corridors, semicircular spaces are created. The walls support a transparent roof, through which the diffused light enters. Despite its compactness, the building has a lively and friendly character. The construction of the pavilion is a careful 2D drawing exercise. Six parallel walls almost 4 meters high are placed with a distance of 2.5 meters from each other. The walls bend, forming semicircular spaces, and the sudden cuts transform this simple pattern into a sophisticated spatial device. The pavilion, a milestone of creative construction, was built in 2005 under supervision of the office of Aldo van Eyck and opened in 2006 by his widow Hannie van Eyck.
Aldo van Eyck’s Sonsbeek Sculpture Pavilion is a built manifesto for the Dutch architect’s theory of the in-between-space. As such it stands at the climax of his dual-tendency to interiorize the exterior and vice versa. Altogether ambiguous, the structure is both open and closed, and as a ruin-in-reverse the simple pavilion with its pre-historic aura reminds the spectator of Neolithic sites such as Stonehenge. The building’s brut construction underlines that the value of architecture is not to be found in the materials used, but rather in the expression of their ordered tectonics to delineate and harbour a society of finely calibrated spaces. Creating a complex matrix of larger and smaller rooms with narrower and wider views in both longitudinal and diagonal direction, a myriad of places reveal themselves for the intimate encounter with the sculptures originally conceived by artists such as Brancusi, Arp or Giacometti and placed on individual plinths.
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