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Climb Your Dorm

By Queuebot in Architecture on Feb 17, 2009 at 5:35 pm


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

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  1. ziggystardust
    Feb 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    "The elevators are slow, I'll just climb!"

  2. Mike Conner
    Feb 17th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Invitation to lawsuits.

  3. Xinavera
    Feb 17th, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    Of course, college students everywhere climb the sides of their dorms. This is just a little less clandestine and a lot less dangerous.

  4. Wok
    Feb 17th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    @ Mike.

    And now we know why life is unbearable.

  5. Jim R Feliciano
    Feb 18th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    My son has done the climb a wall thing and they always have a rope through a pulley at the top to hold the climber. I wonder how they can do that on this wall. I do not think I would climb that high without something to hold me.

  6. ted
    Feb 18th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Fast way to get to your room after a night of heavy drinking.

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