A curtain drawn back at one corner, so that home and city can see each other.
01Scene
We usually see the city and the building as two separate things, one outside and the other inside. In Hael we saw them as continuous layers, and the façade as the layer in between.
02The knot
The question was how much this layer should cover and how much it should reveal: how could it be both a screen and a bond?
03Untying the knot
By stepping back and drawing aside in places, the façade shapes the relationship between inside and outside. Its curved edges lend the layer a sense of movement, as if a sheet had been gently pulled aside so that building and city could be introduced.
On each front the idea speaks differently, according to how much cover it needs: on the south façade the openings are wider and shallower; on the west, smaller and deeper.
As if a sheet had been pulled aside to introduce the building and the city to each other.
04Epilogue
Hael is an attempt to tune relationships: between city and building, open and closed, the individual and the collective.
