The Upside Dome In Leuven, Belgium


Designers Gijs Van Vaerenbergh have suspended a network of chains to create an upside-down dome inside this church in Leuven, Belgium.

The Upside Dome hovers in front of the pulpit inside St-Michiel Church, suspended from the roof where the building’s missing dome should be located.

The installation casts light on the architecture of one of the most prestigious baroque churches of the Low Countries from a contemporary perspective.

The Upside Dome is a real size scale model, comprised of hundreds of meters of chain, which is literally and figuratively the counterpart of the unfinished dome.

Read the original blog post here on Dezeen.

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