A colourful Exception
A study on how Weeber’s Schie Prison uses Colour in a World of colourless Prisons
S.C. van Insulinde (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
J.S. Zeinstra – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Carel Weeber is an architect who makes architecture where colour plays an important role. When his projects are compared, it looks like Weeber made a lot of choices in the beginning of his career by himself. He made these choices intuitively; he did use good reasoning to make the actual decisions. As his career progressed. He made room for decoration, like in De Schie, he made room for Struycken in the hallways to make different artworks. De Struyck is the example where Weeber makes a clear distinction between decoration and architecture; he also reserves space for art in his design, but this space is now the whole façade and parts of the interior. Weeber does not interrupt the artist; he makes the conditions for the artist in which he has to work. Regardless his position, Weeber is still in control.