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Text Katja WIjnands


Once rescued after the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment fire: the TU Delft chair collection. These special chairs are permanently on display at BK City where the faculty found its new home after the fire in 2008. Sometimes a lecturer will take a chair down from the wall to explain a construction technique, architecture students use them for research projects and the chairs are loaned out to museums. The collection is still growing: a recent addition was a 3D-printed chair called the Chubby Chair by Dirk van der Kooij. A new website contains information on model, chair and designer along with the faculty’s collection of scale models. Signs have been put up next to the chairs and QR codes linking to the information on the website. A timeline of the history of the faculty is currently being worked on to go on the bare wall opposite the wall of chairs. Fun fact: the photographer was also there the day after the fire when the chairs were recovered from a lower part of the building that had remained undamaged.

collecties.bk.tudelft.nl

© Sam Rentmeester

Front row seats

Text Katja WIjnands

Once rescued after the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment fire: the TU Delft chair collection. These special chairs are permanently on display at BK City where the faculty found its new home after the fire in 2008. Sometimes a lecturer will take a chair down from the wall to explain a construction technique, architecture students use them for research projects and the chairs are loaned out to museums. The collection is still growing: a recent addition was a 3D-printed chair called the Chubby Chair by Dirk van der Kooij. A new website contains information on model, chair and designer along with the faculty’s collection of scale models. Signs have been put up next to the chairs and QR codes linking to the information on the website. A timeline of the history of the faculty is currently being worked on to go on the bare wall opposite the wall of chairs. Fun fact: the photographer was also there the day after the fire when the chairs were recovered from a lower part of the building that had remained undamaged.

collecties.bk.tudelft.nl

© Sam Rentmeester