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author: ir. Frank van der Hoeven University of Technology Faculty of Architecture e-mail: |
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by Frank van der Hoeven ____________________________________________ Willems- railtunnel in Rotterdam / Binnenrotte / station Blaak The 4 track Willems-railtunnel in Rotterdam is an early example of large scale urban infrastructure, forced underground by this socalled `lack of space'. The tunnel replaced an elevated railway that carved up the city centre for the past 100 years. Because a short tunnel (limited to the rivercrossing) would have had a very negative impact on the spatial quality of the city on both riverbanks, it was decided to construct a tunnel with a maximum length (of four kilometres).Strangely enough, only since its completion, cityplanners start to see the possibilities of this newly formed open urban space in the centre of the city, the so-called Binnenrotte. A new urban plan is underway that will add 2000 upscale housing units to the direct vicinity of the tunnelsite.
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