1988

BAC BANK, KERKSKEN (BELGIUM) BY ROBBRECHT EN DAEM ARCHITECTEN

Photography of a building in an urban landscape

1988

Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988
Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988
Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988
Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988
Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988
Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988
Robbrecht en Daem architecten - BAC Bank, Kerksken (Belgium), 1988

The building is distinguished by an enfilade of pillars in béton brut, a wilful and reassuring evocation of an elementary rural construction. Nevertheless, already from a distance an imbalance introduces a strange distortion of the perspectival effect. The pillars grow larger at the building's extremities, the beams and the roof edges are exempt from the constructive and urbanistic logic of horizontality; this false perspective is accentuated by the oblique line of the natural terrain and the gentle slope of the roof...

Original publication: Catherine Pennequin and Yvan Azizollahoff, 'Tristes Portiques', Domino 1 (September 1989), pp. 36-41. 

Robbrecht en Daem architecten