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Sonsbeek Pavilion in Arnhem, Aldo Van Eyck (1966)

November 18, 2013 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

A temporary pavilion was designed by Aldo Van Eyck and built in the summer of 1966 to host sculptures by nearly thirty artists (including Brancusi, Arp and Giacometti) in the Sonsbeek park in Arnhem. Destroyed a few months later, it was rebuilt in 2006 in the garden of the Kröller-Müller museum in Hoenderloo, Netherlands.

The unspectacular construction is a careful exercise in plan drawing: six parallel walls almost 4m high are placed with a distance of 2.5m from each other. The way the walls bend forming semicircular spaces and the sudden cuts transform this simple pattern in a complex spatial device.

Until its reconstruction, this work stood as a model of “paper architecture”, with a life of its own, “known and discussed on account of the theoretical concept it embodies, but no longer experienced as a real spatial structure” (from here).

 

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Original Pavilion in 1966 (image via Angelikadis, from an original photograph in a Charles Jencks book)


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Original sketch

 

 

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Plan

 

van-eyck-04 Reproductions of sketches. Author unknown.

 

 

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A study of the pavilion

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A model shown in Kassel’s Documenta

 

 

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A model shown in Kassel’s Documenta and some sketches

 

 

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The reconstructed pavilion

 

 

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The reconstructed pavilion

Further reading:
http://andreasangelidakis.blogspot.fr/2007/08/aldo-van-eyck.html
http://www.archined.nl/en/news/van-eycks-sonsbeek-pavilion-rebuilt/
http://www.classic.archined.nl/extra/expo/9803/sonsbeek2_e.html
http://timsengstock.tumblr.com/post/25116198031/aldo-van-eyck-sculpture-pavillon-1966
http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=146

Some of the sixty plans sketched by Aldo Van Eyck for the Sonsbeek Pavillion
via http://affinitaelettive.tumblr.com/

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Comments

  1. archipicture says

    December 19, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    nice design and amazing drawings!
    some more images of other buildings by van eyck
    http://www.archipicture.ch

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