In the Netherlands, there are not many natural places to practice the sport of rock-climbing. But oddly enough, the University of Enschede in the east of the Netherlands has a very active mountaineering club.
So the architects of the new university dormitory chose to make one side of the building into a huge climbing wall, 30 meters (about 9 stories) tall, with 2,500 grips.
photo by Jeroen Musch, via Arons & Gelauff Architects
So the architects of the new university dormitory chose to make one side of the building into a huge climbing wall, 30 meters (about 9 stories) tall, with 2,500 grips.
photo by Jeroen Musch, via Arons & Gelauff Architects
"As a climber in the Netherlands, one anyway has to resort to artificially created training spots, so why not combine architecture and climbing wall?"
--Arons & Gelauff Architects
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.
And now we know why life is unbearable.