The functional landscape of the Port of Rotterdam is unique in the Netherlands. It has a special aesthetics owing to the pure appearance of the unadorned technology. The port is an attractive area for a considerable group of people and for a variety of reasons. When it comes to recreative use, the motto often is: what is impossible elsewhere is possible in the port.

This phenomenal landscape deserves to be experienced. The challenge is to make it attractive to even more groups of users while preserving the adventurous character and pure appearance of the port.

Conditions are created for visitors to find their own starting points for discovery and their own specific forms of use. The designs for panoramic viewpoints do not pre-program use but accommodate a variety of spontaneous activities; a subtle yet crucial difference. It is a difference between being challenged to act on the one hand and participating in a pre-programmed attraction on the other. Panorama 10000 for instance invites unexpected and unconventional types of recreational use.

Client: Port of Rotterdam
Locations: Maasmond 10000, Hartelmond 5000, Geulhaven 4030
Design: Rietveld Landscape I Atelier de Lyon
Drawing: Kasper Jacobs
Status: design, realization 2010 - 2012