2023-12-13 14:02:00
The Stoclet Palace like you’ve never seen it. Here is what the Brussels regional administration in charge of Urban Planning is proposing (urban.brussels) via a video reconstructing in three dimensions the ground floor, the architectural masterpiece created by the architect Josef Hoffman at the request of the banker and collector Adolphe Stoclet. This “digital clone” of the Palais Stoclet is visible as part of the exhibition on Joseph Hoffman. The part on the reconstruction of the Palais Stoclet opens its doors tomorrow Thursday at the art and history museum located at the Cinquantenaire. It will be visible until April 4.
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The creation of this digital reconstruction punctuates a long-standing battle between the Brussels authorities and the Stoclet family, owner of a palace which they refuse to open to the public, even occasionally. It even opposed the distribution of this “digital clone” before lowering its flag following negotiations with urban.brussels. Enough to make Secretary of State for Urban Planning Ans Persoons (vooruit.brussels) “very happy”. “We are not there yet but we would like one day, the people of Brussels to be able to enter the Stoclet Palace”.
Until then, curious visitors will have to go to the exhibition to discover the 1911 Palais Stoclet version in three dimensions. The Stoclet family certainly accepted the restricted distribution of the digital clone but prohibited its large-scale distribution, particularly on the internet.
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The video lasts a little over nine minutes and immerses the viewer in the original version of the Palais Stoclet, built at the beginning of the 20th century. Here we are in 1911. It took more than two years to complete this project. Archival collection work carried out by the laboratory of the La Cambre Horta faculty of architecture at UBL called Alice then modeling. “We worked with the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) team which modeled the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris,” explains Alice project manager David Lo Buglio.
The complexity of the work lay in the fact that the creation of this digital clone was carried out without visiting the Palais Stoclet. Which raises the question of the reliability of the presentation. Is it faithful to the original, from 1911? Impossible to answer this question, comments architect Lo Buglio. “But precise documentation accompanies this modeling. It describes the discrepancies with the original situation.”
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