Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet
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5.4Ha masterplan site for a 'Summer Village' and 'Hobby Park' in Hoogvliet on the outskirts of Rotterdam
The site is on the edge of a motorway and opposite one of the biggest oil refineries in the world.
After extensive consultation with the local community, a range of community facilities were finalised. Heerlijkheid (which roughly translates as ‘beautiful place’) houses an arthouse cinema; a café; a space dedicated to making models of cargo ships; an arboretum; a nature park; a small scaffold hut for teaching children how to make wattle-and-daub walls; and a large lake in the shape of a map of the Netherlands for birds and model boats, surrounded by barbecues.
Data
- Begun: May 2007
- Completed: Jun 2008
- Sector: Master-planning
- Total cost: £1.9M
- Tender date: Dec 2006
- Procurement: Design and Build
- Address: Hoogvliet, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Professional Team 
- Architect: FAT
- Project architect: Sam Jacob
- Client: WiMBY! and Vestia
- Executive Architects: Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten
- Structural engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek
- Services engineer: Boersema Installatietechniek
- Quantity surveyor: PRC Verschoor
- Acoustic engineer: Peutz
- Landscape architect: dS+V
- Main contractor: BAM