The transparent church of Borgloon

The transparent church of Borgloon

In the city of Deposit wage, about 80 kilometers from Brussels, a very different church rises to those that we can find in the rest of Belgium. Is about the transparent church. No, we are not talking about the transparency of the Catholic Church as an institution, but about a literally transparent church, a peculiar work of Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Varenbergh.

It is a ten-meter structure made up of 100 stacked boxes and 2000 columns of steel plates, placed in such a way that visitors are allowed to walk almost through its walls. From a distance, according to the perspective, the structure has the shape of a classical church which, when the light is reflected in it, gives us the sensation of transforming or dissolving before our eyes.

So the transparent church image depends on the position of the sun, the time of day and the direction of the sunlight. A play of light and shadow that, paradoxically, conveys a supernatural, almost religious feeling. A true prodigy that has earned its authors to be awarded with the "building of the year 2012" award awarded by the prestigious publication archdaily.

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