Apartment building - Tilburg

Westpoint is an apartment building in Tilburg whose most striking feature is a residential tower with a height of over 140 meters. This makes it the fourth highest residential tower in the Netherlands and the highest in the province of North Brabant.

TRITEGO fixtures were chosen at the time for the lighting on the facade.

The vertical recesses and horizontal concrete elements are color-coded. On the facade itself, between each floor, where there is no concrete element, there is a colored light source. During the day a layer of color is perceptible that at night mixes with the colored light. As a result, at night the residential tower is enclosed by two softly glowing screens. With the light of the residents themselves and the natural light elements of day and night, Kuijer has turned it into a living work of art that constantly changes in appearance. The lamps of Westpoint go on one by one. This happens automatically and always in the same order. Residents notice little of the colored exterior lighting.

Herman Kuijer from Hilvarenbeek, 'the man behind the lights'. "When the sun goes down and the residents come home, the lights jump on at will," says Kuijer. "In an abstract way, it's a reflection of that coming home, because that also happens in a random way." Behind the color scheme used is another thought. "A reflection of another complex structure: reality," says Kuijer. "Which is so complex that we cannot grasp it."