DEZEEN: De Wachtkamer hacks refugee beds

Visitors to Dutch Design Week were invited to consider how the country houses its asylum seekers in a pavilion by De Wachtkamer, a local organisation aiming to improve their living conditions through design.

Located in the Ketelhuisplein square of Eindhoven's Strijp-S creative district, the pavilion bears the same name as the organisation: De Wachtkamer or The Waiting Room.

It showcases the group's first intervention: a plywood cabin system designed to fit over existing bunk beds in the Netherlands' emergency refugee shelters to give the people living there more ….