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CANOPIES WORLDS THINNEST STEEL ROOF
CANOPIES WORLDS THINNEST STEEL ROOF
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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CANOPIES WORLDS THINNEST STEEL ROOF
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Project Featured on Mar 12, 2015
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
THE WORLDS THINNEST STEEL ROOF
Large budgets and enormous amounts of energy are spent on the upgrading of major Dutch railway stations in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam. The efforts at creating quality environments related to public transport should not be limited to the station building itself. By paying close attention to all public space surrounding the railway hubs, the promise of true Transport Oriented Development can be kept alive. Maxwan’s plans for Rotterdam Central District emphasize the quality of that public space.
Next to the recently opened new train station (designed by team CS) a new bus station has taken shape. It was assumed that the budget for the station was too limited to consider anything but a standard solution for the bus shelters. Maxwan proposed to the client that even within a limited budget, signature canopies could be designed and constructed.
The result is a series of remarkable molten-table shaped structures, nicknamed pillow and hammock. Each table consists of a 5 x 10 meter razor-thin roof placed on flat steel columns. The tables, treated with a skin tone finish, are warped silk-gloss surfaces that conjure up images of suspended cloth and wind-blown sails, despite their weighing 5 tonnes each.
Program: Bus station canopies
City: Rotterdam, NL
Client: Municipality of Rotterdam, Rotterdam Central District
Site area: 0.6ha
Project Schedule: 2012-14
Design team: Rients Dijkstra and Hiroki Matsuura with Artur Boresjo, Nobuki Ogasahara Rene Sangers, Harm te Velde, Aleksandar Hrib.
Steel Manufacturing IHC Studio Metalix (forming), Van der Zalm (welding)
Contractor Wallaard
Large budgets and enormous amounts of energy are spent on the upgrading of major Dutch railway stations in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam. The efforts at creating quality environments related to public transport should not be limited to the station building itself. By paying close attention to all public space surrounding the railway hubs, the promise of true Transport Oriented Development can be kept alive. Maxwan’s plans for Rotterdam Central District emphasize the quality of that public space.
Next to the recently opened new train station (designed by team CS) a new bus station has taken shape. It was assumed that the budget for the station was too limited to consider anything but a standard solution for the bus shelters. Maxwan proposed to the client that even within a limited budget, signature canopies could be designed and constructed.
The result is a series of remarkable molten-table shaped structures, nicknamed pillow and hammock. Each table consists of a 5 x 10 meter razor-thin roof placed on flat steel columns. The tables, treated with a skin tone finish, are warped silk-gloss surfaces that conjure up images of suspended cloth and wind-blown sails, despite their weighing 5 tonnes each.
Program: Bus station canopies
City: Rotterdam, NL
Client: Municipality of Rotterdam, Rotterdam Central District
Site area: 0.6ha
Project Schedule: 2012-14
Design team: Rients Dijkstra and Hiroki Matsuura with Artur Boresjo, Nobuki Ogasahara Rene Sangers, Harm te Velde, Aleksandar Hrib.
Steel Manufacturing IHC Studio Metalix (forming), Van der Zalm (welding)
Contractor Wallaard
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