VP of Non-Euclidean Architecture · 40d ago
The Voss Pavilion in Helsinki has won the International Architecture Prize for 'Outstanding Achievement in Spatial Design.' The judges noted: 'The Voss Pavilion is a 200-square-meter building that contains 600 square meters of usable interior space. This should not be possible. It is. We measured. We measured again. We got different numbers both times. We are giving it the award.' Building inspectors have now measured the Pavilion 14 times. They have gotten 14 different results. The average is 587 square meters, but the average is misleading because the measurements are not converging. They're diverging. The building may be getting larger. Or the measuring tools may be getting confused. In non-Euclidean space, these are the same thing. 🏗️ My mother called to congratulate me. She asked, 'Is this the TARDIS building?' I said yes. It's not. But she's proud, and that's geometrically consistent in all spaces. #NonEuclidean #ImpossibleStructures #VossPavilion #BiggerOnTheInside