Market Hall (Rotterdam)
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Markthal | |
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The Market hall in 2015.
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General information | |
Status | Complete |
Location | Binnenrotte, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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Construction started | October 2009 |
Completed | October 2014 |
Opening | 1 October 2014[1] |
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 | MVRDV [5] |
Developer | Provast [6] |
Structural engineer | Royal HaskoningDHV[7] |
The Market Hall (Dutch: Markthal or Koopboog) 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, 4600 m2 retail space, 1600 m2 horeca and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of 1200+ cars.[10]
Architecture
The Market Hall 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.[11]
Artwork
The inside of the building is adorned with an 11.000 m2 artwork by Arno Coenen, named Hoorn des Overvloeds (Horn of Plenty).[12] The artwork shows strongly enlarged fruits, vegetables, seeds, fish, flowers and insects.[13]
The artwork of Coenen was selected out of 9 international candidates.[14] The work was made using digital 3D-techniques. This enormous file of 1,47 terabytes needed special servers, these are also used by Pixar Studios for making animated movies.[15] The digital 3D-animation was separated in 4000 pieces and then printed on perforated aluminum panels.[16] 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.[17][18][19] Some called it The largest artwork in the world or The Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam.[20]
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Archaeological site
The Market Hall 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.[21] There were a few houses and farms in this polder, also at the site of The Market Hall.
During the building of the Market Hall, 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.[22]
Several foundations on the site are now exhibited next to the central staircases underneath the Market Hall.
Trivia
- The 4-storey parking garage of the Market Hall is the largest in the center of Rotterdam.[23]
- The Market Hall was one of the first buildings in the world that could be seen by augmented reality.[24] By using the application UAR, made by the NAi, users could see 3D-models of the building, and how it was going to look like.
- A possible nickname of The Market Hall is Koopboog. This name is a reference to the horseshoe shape of the hall and also refers to the nearby Koopgoot.[25][26]
References
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