The New-York based architecture studio SO-IL have installed a fabulous new ‘Beeline’ intervention at MAAT as the first phase of the director Beatrice Leanza’s new programme.
You can now walk directly between the building’s secret rear entrance on the city side to its main entrance on the waterfront via the museum’s main exhibition space. A temporary auditorium will host a series of public events.
In an interview with Dezeen, co-founder of SO-IL, Florian Idenburg spoke about the firm’s ambitions for the project.
‘What we try to do with this installation is not to make it just a stage or just, say, a screen or just a room. So, we’re not so interested in creating an architecture that is very legible in its sort of functional sense. It’s a very ambiguous form if you want; a form that can take on different meaning and different use.’
Photographs by Iwan Baan