Diaphanous Space...
Exhibition Hall, Monastery Wedinghausen
Wedinghausen Monastery was founded in 1170 as a Premonstratensian monastery. After the monastery was dissolved in 1803, large parts of the old monastery complex were demolished. The sacred space was no longer recognizable and had become an asphalt parking lot. The demolition and opening of the monastery courtyard in the 19th century was not just a loss, but also a dawn of modernity. It was the expression of a social process and a “spatial” enlightenment that brought a new quality of openness and light into the place. The historical monastery courtyard was undirected and symmetrical. The nineteenth century room found, on the other hand, was linearly aligned. The redesign combines the contradictions of demarcation and opening. It should make the spatial breaks of the monastery legible and restore a common space for the different users. The redesign of the monastery courtyard of Wedinghausen Monastery is a spatialized metaphor for the dawn of modernity.
