A city park on top of shops and a dike

A city park on top of shops and a dike

van Veelen, P.C. (TU Delft OLD Urban Compositions)
Voorendt, M.Z. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk)
van der Zwet, C (Van Hattum en Blankevoort)

Kothuis, Baukje (editor)
Kok, Matthijs (editor)

2017

The Roof Park ('Dakpark’) is an elevated park on a former railway yard in the Delfshaven quarter in Rotterdam. The park is located on top of the roof of a new shopping centre, which includes a parking garage (hence its name, ‘dak’ means ‘roof’). The park is the largest green roof in Rotterdam and one of the largest in the Netherlands. The park offers a playground, communal garden and a Mediterranean garden with an orangery (figure 9). The Roof Park is 1,000 m long and 80 m wide. The park is situated 9 m above street level. There is 25,000 m2 retail spaces under the city park, and the structure includes a car park with space for about 750 cars. The gardens bring more nature to the district, and the project as a whole has provided more employment. The Roof Park is combined with a dike, the ‘Delflandse Dijk’, that is part of dike ring 14, which protects the urban area of the Randstad.

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