Looking at the sections this seems improbable and it clearly owes much to the shafts being terminated by two-storey-high vertical glazing as well as the expected horizontal glass, embracing the light ‘like a (baseball) catcher’s mitt’, as Holl’s partner and co-designer Chris McVoy aptly puts it. The white-painted shafts are elegantly thin and were cast with self-compacting concrete in steel shuttering, allowing geometrically complex openings to be cut using CNC-milling machines and producing an almost perfectly smooth surface.Looking at the plans I am reminded of the cylindrical rooflights in Aldo van Eyck’s Hague church. They, too, straddle the primary lines of structure and − to use van Eyck’s idiosyncratic description − ‘set the mild gears of reciprocity in motion’.
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