Open for one month in 2022 in which it played a highlighted role in both Rotterdam Architecture Month and the Rotterdam Rooftop Festival, the Rotterdam Rooftop Walk allowed visitors to venture across a variety of the city’s rooftops at a height of 30 metres. It aimed to give the public a new perspective on the city: the extensive programming increased visitors’ awareness of the potential of roofs, which can become a “second layer” that makes the city more liveable, biodiverse, sustainable, and healthy, while the highlight of the route was the bridge spanning the Coolsingel, one of Rotterdam’s most important streets.
The bright orange Rotterdam Rooftop Walk was 600 metres long and offered the public a fantastic view of the city. In the rooftop exhibition artists, designers, and architects showed how much is possible if we use our roofs efficiently for greenery, water storage, food production, and energy generation. On top of the installation, all kinds of makers showed how roofs can contribute to a sustainable, healthy, and liveable city – from a virtual village to a green design for the roof of the Bijenkorf department store. The temporary installation was an initiative of Rotterdam Rooftop Days, with the concept and design developed together with MVRDV.
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