鹿特丹博物馆公园 · 现代景观艺术之作

MuseumparkLocation: Rotterdam, NLClient: City of RotterdamCollaborators: Yves Brunier, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Fuminori Hoshino, Chris van Duijn, Ank van PeskiScope of work: Assisting landscape architect Yves Brunier during the design of a public park as ‘living art piece’Initial design: Yves Brunier (1991)Date: 1989 - 1994Restoration: 2008 - 2011Size: 4 haThis linear park is located amidst the Rotterdam Museum district, between Kunsthal, the museum Boymans van Beuningen and the Dutch Architecture Institute (NAi). The Museumpark was initially designed by Brunier almost like a horizontal building consisting of four consequent ‘rooms’ of different character. First the original ‘white apple orchard’ (now an “orchard” of Honeylocust trees) where the trees arise from a thick carpet of white washed shells. A 90 meter long mirrored wall lines this orchard towards the cultural podium that is lit by floodlights at night and furnished with small folding chairs. The second room of the park is a lifted black-and-white asphalt podium for sports and cultural happenings that now carries the image of the new European flag, designed by Rem Koolhaas.Next to this is the third room, a romantic garden with a composition of painting-by-number planting planes that change colour in leaf, flower and fruit from season to season. It featured a glass and rock river that springs at the Kunsthal plaza and ends in a small circular pond with an island; a meandering path of bark, lined with coloured picnic-islands, that take the visitor into the forest and through the colourful vegetation; and finally, a transparent pedestrian bridge (lit from beneath when the sun sets), that is flying over the ‘sea of flowers’ and leading to the Kunsthal plaza, with its blue glazed stone.Images: © Inside Outside