Market Hall (Rotterdam) Explained

Markthal
Native Name:Markthal
Status:Complete
Location:Binnenrotte, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Coordinates:51.92°N 4.4869°W
Start Date:October 2009
Completion Date:October 2014
Architect:MVRDV[1]
Cost:€178,000,000 [2]
Top Floor:370NaN0
Floor Count:11
4 below ground
Roof:400NaN0
Elevator Count:26 [3] [4]
Structural Engineer:Royal HaskoningDHV[5]
Opening:1 October 2014[6]
Developer:Provast [7]

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

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

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

Archaeological site

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MVRDV - MARKET HALL. mvrdv.nl. 2015-04-06.
  2. Web site: Markthal kost Rotterdam 3,5 miljoen extra | RTV Rijnmond. rijnmond.nl. 2015-04-06.
  3. Web site: Bezoek van de Markthal gestroomlijnd - architectenweb.nl. architectenweb.nl. 2015-04-06.
  4. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam | KONE Nederland. kone.nl. 2015-04-06. 2016-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20160312054338/http://www.kone.nl/referenties/gemengd-gebruik/markthal-rotterdam/. dead.
  5. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam. nieuws.top010.nl. 2015-04-06.
  6. Web site: Markthal . 2015-04-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110123000402/http://markthalrotterdam.nl/informatie.html . January 23, 2011 .
  7. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam - Provast. provast.nl. 2015-04-06.
  8. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam. 2015-04-06.
  9. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam. markthalrotterdam.nl. 2015-04-06.
  10. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam | De Markthal. wonenindemarkthal.nl. 2015-04-06.
  11. Web site: Europa's grootste kabelnet glasgevels voor Markthal Rotterdam. 28 January 2013 . glasinbeeld.nl. 2015-04-06.
  12. Web site: MVRDV - Markthal .
  13. Web site: Gekibbel in Overvloed - Atelier ACW. atelieracw.tumblr.com. 2015-04-06.
  14. Web site: In Rotterdam is zojuist het grootste kunstwerk ter wereld geopend | The Creators Project. 19 May 2014 . thecreatorsproject.vice.com. 2015-04-06.
  15. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam. markthalrotterdam.nl. 2015-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20150416225745/http://markthalrotterdam.nl/contrary-to-popular-belief/. 2015-04-16. dead.
  16. Web site: Dearchitect.nl .
  17. Web site: Rounded Market Hall: Huge Digital Mural Wraps 118,000 Sq Ft . 2016-02-02. 14 October 2014 .
  18. Web site: De Hoorn des Overvloeds van Arno Coenen - VPRO. vpro.nl. 2015-04-06.
  19. Web site: arno coenen + iris roskam wrap rotterdam's markthal in a digital mega-mural. 29 May 2014 . designboom.com. 2015-04-06.
  20. Web site: 'Biggest Artwork In The World' Hits The Netherlands, Dubbed 'Sistine Chapel Of Rotterdam'. 2 June 2014 . huffingtonpost.com. 2015-04-06.
  21. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam. markthalrotterdam.nl. 2015-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20150416225745/http://markthalrotterdam.nl/contrary-to-popular-belief/. 2015-04-16. dead.
  22. Web site: Grootste parkeergarage van Rotterdam onder Markthal - VERKEERSNET. 9 September 2014 . verkeersnet.nl. 2015-04-06.
  23. Web site: Nederlands Architectuurinstituut - item. nai.nl. 2015-04-06.
  24. Web site: 'De Koopboog beste bijnaam voor Markthal' - AD.nl. ad.nl. 2015-04-06.
  25. Web site: Column: Kappen met die bijnamen | RTV Rijnmond. rijnmond.nl. 2015-04-06.
  26. Web site: Archeologie: een geotechnische uitdaging. 29 August 2012. Ir. Dick Wilschut, DRS. Maaike M. Sier. 2015-04-06. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132937/http://www.vakbladgeotechniek.nl/sites/default/files/pdf/Geotechniek.okt2012.MarkthalRotterdam.Archeologie.pdf. 2 April 2015.
  27. Web site: Markthal Rotterdam. markthalrotterdam.nl. 2015-04-06.
  28. De Tijdtrap (The time staircase) exhibition in Markthal http://www.detijdtrap.nl/en/

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