Wheels of Heaven Church

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The Wheels of Heaven Church was a project that Aldo van Eyck designed in 1966.  It was designed for the construction of a Protestant church in the village of Driebergen, Holland. Van Eyck won the job, but it would never be built. Like other projects, this building was antisymmetric avoiding a single center. Each circular space had an independent desk suspended above the slab through a narrow strip of windows.  It provoked an effect of weightlessness emphasized by the lighting of skylights. The different orientation of these skylights and interior spaces with the circular desks gave the whole rotational-dynamic effect that justified the Wheels of Heaven name.

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