In the traverse between the Erasmus MC and the Museumpark, Atelier Tomas Dirrix and Chantal Schoenmakers designed a modular exhibition about the green future of the city.

RA Month’s main exhibition focuses on the future of the ‘Garden of the City’. Architects, landscape designers and residents show how the city can become greener, more attractive and more biodiverse. You can see how Hofplein transforms from a traffic roundabout into a green oasis, look at the city through the eyes of a rat and see how brutalist structures are taken over by nature. Plans for neighbourhood gardens are interspersed with ideas for distribution parks. It provides a kaleidoscopic overview of original plans for the future.

About Atelier Tomas Dirrix and Chantal Schoenmakers

Atelier Tomas Dirrix is an architecture practice based in Rotterdam. Since the start it has been working from a cultural and material notion of building. Atelier Tomas Dirrix carries out a diverse range of work, including residential, cultural and public buildings, and permanent and temporary commissions. Through contributions to publications and exhibitions, their projects and ideas are part of an emerging international conversation on architecture. For the scenography of the Garden of the City, they collaborated with Chantal Schoenmakers, known for her involvement in Rotterdam’s maker culture.

The content of this exhibition has been made possible by:

Voice of the park

• Programmed Trees by: LMNL office
• Rat City by: Merel Ligtelijn & Christine van Royen
• Regeneration of the concrete jungle by: Mike van Rheenen
• The Hofbogen plinths, Rotterdam by: BureauVanEig
• Studio ‘New Habitat’: the voice of the stork by: Academie van Bouwkunst Groningen

How public are public spaces?

• Museumpark Biotopes by: Studio Nadia Nena
• BOS.POLDER.PLEIN by: Werkgroep Bospolderplein
• Productive Commons by: Izabela Słodka en Federica Zatta
• Public Spaces for Urban Sports by: RUSH World
• Stadspark West is both a fact and an idea by: buro MA.AN, DaF-architecten en Urban Scenography

The healthy city of the future

• A courtyard as an outdoor classroom by: Expertisecentrum Maatschappelijke Innovatie, Hogeschool Rotterdam
• The Box by: Luïsa Jacobse
• KleinpolderpleinPARK by: Kunstenaarsgroep Observatorium
• Rotterdam Hofplein by: Juurlink + Geluk Stedenbouw en Landschap
• Working Garden by: Dividual

The everyday garden

• Nature-inclusive living in a green oasis by: INBO en h3o architects
• Trees make a significant contribution by: Trompenburg Tuinen & Arboretum
• Tuin de Bajonet by: Stichting Tuin de Bajonet, Wolbert van Dijk
• Neighbourhood garden by: Aanpact
• Watching a Tree Grow by: Nazanin Hedayati en Bart Buerman