Ruben Dahmen

Ruben Dahmen — architecture. Conversions, transformations and interiors.

Interior with a timber roof and red-brown painted steel trusses, a birch plywood wall with a bookshelf, a kitchen and a dining table; on the left someone stands by a ladder. The timber deck of the Queer Stage during a performance: a performer in a blue dress, audience on brightly coloured benches around it, rainbow flags and the vividly painted KALEIDO bar. The Gigabed in evening light: a transparent room of corrugated sheeting with a red panel, on a frame of heavy timber posts above a grass field, with a ladder leaning against it. Dark concrete space in a munitions bunker with a lit projection on the back wall and a figure standing still in the light. Section drawing at 1:200: a large concrete bowl hangs between slender columns, with the encroaching housing blocks of Cairo on either side. Steel crane structure photographed from below; a woven rope net is stretched across a circular ring inside the square opening. A smooth pink form lies half in the pond of the Vondelpark between the trees; the park around it is in black and white. Stage image in red light: two enormous discs of knotted red rope hang above the chorus, with a singer below raising her arms inside a red boat frame. Square panel of five by five handmade paper tiles on a wall; raking light makes the point in each tile read as a soft shadowed peak. Joint at the head of a timber post photographed from below, where several beams and a brace come together; the pegs sit tight in the wood. Dismantled kitchen units stacked into a wall in a workshop; someone is sliding a cabinet door in between them. Wooden chair seen straight from the side against a plywood wall; back, seat and leg form one continuous line ending in a small foot. Black and white photograph of the lamp: aluminium tubes interlocking as rectangles pushed through one another, with a glowing white box at the centre. Dark forged steel sculpture against a clouded sky, balancing on a single point.
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