Market Hall (Rotterdam)
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Markthal | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Location | Binnenrotte, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Coordinates | 51°55′12″N 4°29′13″E / 51.92000°N 4.48694°E |
Construction started | October 2009 |
Completed | October 2014 |
Opening | 1 October 2014[6] |
Cost | €178,000,000 [2] |
Height | |
Roof | 40 m (131 ft) |
Top floor | 37 m (121 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 11 4 below ground |
Lifts/elevators | 26 [3][4] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | MVRDV[1] |
Developer | Provast [7] |
Structural engineer | Royal HaskoningDHV[5] |
The Markthal (English: Market Hall) is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam.[8] The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.[9] Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4,600 m2 retail space, 1,600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars.[10]
Architecture
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The Markthal was designed by architectural firm MVRDV. The grey nature stone building has an archwise structure like a horseshoe. The building has a glass facade on both sides; these are made up of smaller glass windows. The smaller windows are mostly squared and around 1485 millimeters wide. All of these are hung around a structure of steel cables, 34 metres high and 42 metres wide, which makes it the largest glass-window cable structure in Europe. Each facade has 26 vertical and 22 horizontal cables. The facade was designed and installed by Octatube[11]
Artwork
[edit]The inside of the building is adorned with an 11.000 m2 artwork by Arno Coenen and Iris Roskam,[12] named Hoorn des Overvloeds (Horn of Plenty).[13] The artwork shows strongly enlarged fruits, vegetables, seeds, fish, flowers and insects.[14]
The artwork was selected out of 9 international candidates.[15] The work was made using digital 3D-techniques. This enormous file of 1,47 terabytes needed special servers, which are also used by Pixar Studios for making animated movies.[16] The digital 3D-animation was separated in 4000 pieces and then printed on perforated aluminum panels.[17] The 4000 aluminum panels are now on the inside of the hall. Right after the opening in 2014, the artwork got a lot of attention from around the world.[18][19][20] Some called it The largest artwork in the world or The Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam.[21]
Miscellany
[edit]- The 4-storey parking garage of the Markthal is the largest in the center of Rotterdam.[22]
- The Markthal was one of the first buildings in the world that could be seen by augmented reality.[23] By using the application UAR, made by the NAi, users could see 3D-models of the building, and how it was going to look.
- A possible nickname of the Markthal is Koopboog. This name is a reference to the horseshoe shape of the hall and also refers to the nearby Koopgoot.[24][25]
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Archaeological site
[edit]The Markthal is built on top of a fourteenth-century buried village in the Polder of Westnieuwland. This polder was surrounded by water and dykes to protect the polder during high-tide.[26] There were a few houses and farms in this polder, also at the site of the Markthal.
During the building of the Markthal, a tenth-century farm was found 7 metres under the ground. Within the house were two stoves and a few fireplaces. The farm was part of a village before Rotterdam, named Rotta, after the river Rotte. The inhabitants of Rotta were farmers, craftsmen and traders. Earlier, a small settlement from the fourteenth-century was found on the site.[27]
Several foundations on the site are now exhibited next to the central staircases underneath the Markthal.[28]
References
[edit]- ^ "MVRDV - MARKET HALL". mvrdv.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal kost Rotterdam 3,5 miljoen extra | RTV Rijnmond". rijnmond.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Bezoek van de Markthal gestroomlijnd - architectenweb.nl". architectenweb.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam | KONE Nederland". kone.nl. Archived from the original on 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam". nieuws.top010.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal". Archived from the original on January 23, 2011. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam - Provast". provast.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam". markthalrotterdam.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam | De Markthal". wonenindemarkthal.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Europa's grootste kabelnet glasgevels voor Markthal Rotterdam". glasinbeeld.nl. 28 January 2013. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "MVRDV - Markthal".
- ^ "Gekibbel in Overvloed - Atelier ACW". atelieracw.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "In Rotterdam is zojuist het grootste kunstwerk ter wereld geopend | The Creators Project". thecreatorsproject.vice.com. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam". markthalrotterdam.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Dearchitect.nl".
- ^ "Rounded Market Hall: Huge Digital Mural Wraps 118,000 Sq Ft". 14 October 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ "De Hoorn des Overvloeds van Arno Coenen - VPRO". vpro.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "arno coenen + iris roskam wrap rotterdam's markthal in a digital mega-mural". designboom.com. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "'Biggest Artwork In The World' Hits The Netherlands, Dubbed 'Sistine Chapel Of Rotterdam'". huffingtonpost.com. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam". markthalrotterdam.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Grootste parkeergarage van Rotterdam onder Markthal - VERKEERSNET". verkeersnet.nl. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Nederlands Architectuurinstituut - item". nai.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "'De Koopboog beste bijnaam voor Markthal' - AD.nl". ad.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Column: Kappen met die bijnamen | RTV Rijnmond". rijnmond.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ Ir. Dick Wilschut, DRS. Maaike M. Sier (29 August 2012). "Archeologie: een geotechnische uitdaging" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ "Markthal Rotterdam". markthalrotterdam.nl. Retrieved 2015-04-06.
- ^ De Tijdtrap (The time staircase) exhibition in Markthal http://www.detijdtrap.nl/en/
External links
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