Chapel paragraaf 1

In February 2009, the new building was completed for the Delfshaven Nursing Home, located in a multicultural community in the city of Rotterdam. The ground floor houses several facilities that are not only open to clients of the nursing home, but also to visitors and neighborhood residents. One of these facilities is a non-denominational chapel and meditative space designed by artist Ingeborg Meulendijks.

The Dutch Foundation for Art in Public Spaces (SKOR) proposed Meulendijks be the designer for the project on the strength of her earlier work. Since 1997, she has been working on her "secret house", an art project that consists of sculptural models and photos of the modeled spaces. By playing with scale and perspective, she explores how we experience a space on an emotional level. Constructing a space is for her primarily about building somewhere you would really like to be.