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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]
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]
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]
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]
Markthal | |
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Markthal | |
| |
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]
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]
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]
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]