Hospital block with coloured glass panels.

The coloured glass panels inside the building. In each room has oroginal artworks.

Hospital room

The translucent coloured glass panes represent the business card of the hospital.

Detail of the glass panes

The tarnslucent coloured glass panes inside.

Waiting room

West facade with glass sculpture and glass benches as works of art.

West facade

The hospital block at night.

At night

At night

Night view west facade

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Title: IN OUT

Description: At the facades of the new hospital building 155 coloured glass panels are installed. Dimensions 4 meters x 1,10 meters each. The panels bring colours to the outside of the building. The panels are translucent. Images inside are diffused. In the rooms they are objects of meditation.

The new building block is much larger than the pavilions that characterized the hospital until then. The panels of coloured glass break the massiveness of the block, make it transparent. So even that new building block has become the hospital's visiting card.

The glass panels have an effect outwards and inwards.

Each hospital room has a its own coloured glass window, which reflects the intensity of the light outside. The colours break the sterility of a hospital environment. The sublte colours invite meditation. In case the window is annoying, a curtain can be pushed in front of it.

Completed: The east façade has been installed in 2016-2019
Location: ZOL, Schiepse Bos 6, B-3600 Genk, Belgium
Project duration: 5 years
Medium: Digital Prints inside glass.
Architect: Architectengroep A4, Leuven, Belgium
Project Consultant, management and art: Michel CraybexProject manager: Ir. Philip Verheije Commissioning Agency: Hospital East Limburg Genk, Belgium
Remark: the project has been developed in close collaboration with architects Gunther Herrijgers and Wouter De Ceulaer