LIST . Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture
When we started to work on the extension of the Frans Masereel Centrum, it felt like an architecture school exercise. The relationship between platonic volumes and the open landscape suggested some kind of fundamental act of architecture, profoundly anchored within the discipline. The dome, the A-Frame houses and the two small ellipsoidal domes formed together a village, inhabited by what seemed to be a strangely urban tribe, surrounded by ponies, open fields and pine woods. Adding a new pavilion to Lou Jansen’s dome required us to be both attentive to its architectural qualities and to be prospective about its potential. The new building is neither an ode nor a critique of the existing centre. Above all, it tries to find rich and complementary interrelations with the existing environment and to charge the space, in and around it, with new possibilities. Continue reading LIST . Nakayama
