reading between the lines

reading between the lines is a project by gijs van vaerenbergh, a collaboration between belgian architects pieterjan gijs & arnout van vaerenbergh.  reading between the lines in part of 'pit', an artistic trajectory with works by ten artists in the region of borgloon-heers in the flemish province of limburg.

'pit' will be the first part of the exhibition project Z-OUT, an initiative in which Z33, the comtemporary art museum of the city of hasselt, presents art is public spaces. 

this piece is based on the design of the local church & consists of 30 tons of steel & 2000 columns & is built on a fundament of armed concrete. through the use of horizontal plates, the concept of the traditional church is transformed into a transparent object of art.