Landscape Architecture: Rotterdam

Different uses for the site, increased and improved transition points linking up the site with the context

The site has very linear routes and both the cycle and pedestrian routes are disjointed. They need pulling together to improve the access and feel and flow of the site

Reference back to Rotterdam's ports and their cargo

The evolution of Rotterdam's history and cargo industry, Two shipping containers one with statues of people surrounding the top edges, and one with one person on the top, inline with the Euromast, almost as though it is the crane operating tower. This represents how Rotterdam's ports went from supporting many people with jobs and how now only a few are needed to rune the automated ports and cranes.

Reference to the new way of automated cargo. It stretches from the waterside across to the maastunnel with a container suspended above the road. This encourages people to look across the road and into the wider context

Looking into the history of Rotterdam in order to create a sclupture that tells a story about the place.
I'll be looking at both Claes Oldenburg and Antony Gormley sculptures for inspiration.

Gormley feels that the sculptures should be "an attempt to materialise the place" and "activate the skyline in order to encourage people to look around. In this process of looking and finding, or looking and seeking, one perhaps re-assess one's own position in the world and becomes aware of one's status of embedment".

Sculpture by Antony Gormley

I think that the sculpture should tell a subtle story of the past and be "a trace of a real event of a real body in time". The sculpture should grab peoples attention; make them look into and think about the wider context whilst still being something of a playfull nature - being at a large scale and brightly coloured, giving an almost fun and animated perspective on life similar to the feeling you get from looking at sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen.