Climb Your Dorm

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

“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

Link – via bldgblog

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.