Silent Space

Creating a quiet space in the new hospital in Mechelen offers the opportunity to withdraw with silence as a partner. You can visit this space individually, but certainly also in a group. You can let the silence come to you, but you can also have conversations in small groups. You allow this space to come to yourself, allow you to reflect and think undisturbed. It is a (rest) place that is handed over, that is always present when you need it with the intention of giving you strength.

Not only this space wants to help you with this, but also the silence object that I have designed and created for this. It is a large flat disc that appears to float on the ground. It is a serene, white and quiet object. It doesn’t call for attention, but it is there. However, it is imperfect. A fold does not make this object perfectly flat, a reference to all of us, nobody is perfect. But it is precisely this imperfection that makes it a warm and human object that is close to us. The imperfection gives beauty to this object. It wants to communicate with you, it wants to release something in you, it gives you peace of mind, it lets you discover something.