House DG-DR

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RESEARCH BACKGROUND: Van Den Berghe was invited by Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu (ADVVT) to participate in the exhibition Carousel. In consultation with ADVVT, he presented the project 'House DG-DR,' consisting of three scale models that were vertical sections, and two architectural drawings on scale 1/10 as vertical sections of architectural details. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Through the exhibition Van Den Berghe investigated and demonstrated the concept of section, both in the architectural drawing and in the nature of the construction site. This draws from his ongoing architectural practice which emphasises the scale model as a primary tool at designer's hands, and where poetic notions of thickness, substance, depth and darkness permeate experimental architectural design and construction practice. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of this project is evidenced by its inclusion in an innovative architectural exhibition curated by ADVVT, who are known as 'key players of the current innovative Belgian architecture discourse' (Domus, 12 March 2015). In addition to exhibiting their own work at the invitation of ETH Zürich, ADVVT invited other architectural practices to demonstrate how and to what extent these practices have been a reference for the generation and emergence of their own body of work, speaking of these as 'works that we would have liked to have done.' The venue - the Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich - is an influential institution for architecture exhibitions in Switzerland since its inception in 1975. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue and covered in Domus Magazine.