http://artbabble.org/artist/Willem_Van_Der_Sluis/feed en http://artbabble.org/video/boijmans/customr-dome-construction-illegal-immigrants <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-series"> <div class="field-label">Series:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/series/dutch-design">Dutch Design</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <a href="/series/dutch-design">Dutch Design</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-institution"> <div class="field-label">Institution:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/partner/museum-boijmans-van-beuningen">Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Willem van der Sluis (1972) designed a demountable and moveable sports and recreation facility at the detention centre in Zaandam. Asylum seekers who have been denied residence are held here awaiting deportation. Van der Sluis based his design on the classical dome construction. The fencing material has a pattern which filters the light as the leaves of a tree do in nature. At night the ‘sportdomes’, as Van der Sluis calls them, are transformed into beacons of light that point at the hopeless situation of the inhabitants of the center.</p> http://artbabble.org/video/boijmans/customr-dome-construction-illegal-immigrants#comments Architecture Customr European Design Willem Van Der Sluis Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen http://artbabble.org/sites/default/files/bvideos/80/80e7c41706664ccb/poster-image-06.jpg 80e7c41706664ccb Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:47:41 +0000 Boijmans.educatie 5507 at http://artbabble.org