Het Hooghuis
In the light installation Light over Matter, the concrete sections of two adjacent facades of the tower are illuminated by video projectors. An animation has been created that continually shows the tower in a different light, changing the spatial experience of the tower as a form, its articulation and transparency. The moving light transforms the perception of the rigidity of the tower into an elastic shape. Sound composed by sound artist Rob van Rooij accompanies this play of light and darkness.
The design of Het Hooghuis on Keizersgracht was created by the Rotterdam based architectural firm Van den Broek en Bakema and dates from 1975. At the end of the nineteen sixties, this firm developed an urban planning scheme for the city center of Eindhoven called the Cityplan. After various debates and objections, the Cityplan fell through in 1974. The spirit of the times had changed. Instead of large scale urban interventions, the realization grew that urban transformation should develop on a smaller and more organic scale. Het Hooghuis is one of the few buildings that is a direct result of the ambitious Cityplan.
This work may still ring a bell. It was also part of GLOW in 2017. Remarkable: for light architect Har Hollands, the original installation was the first project in which he created video content for large scale projection. So this work definitely could not be missing this year during our twentieth anniversary.
