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Museumpark parking garage
Back to overviewThe municipality of Rotterdam sought a design that could solve the parking problem in Museumpark, while also fitting into the city's cultural heart, bordering the Natural History Museum, the Kunsthal, and the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum. We designed an underground parking garage that can accommodate over 1,150 cars and simultaneously functions as a water storage facility with a capacity of 10,000 m³. We also redesigned the upper area connecting the museums to the Erasmus MC.
The 1,150 parking spaces are distributed across three underground levels. You enter the parking garage on level -2, from where you can then drive to levels -1 and -3. Safety and the experience of the parking space were our primary considerations. With pedestrians in mind, we designed a clear and well-organized routing and added voids on both sides of the underground space to allow natural daylight to enter.
Surplus Water Collection
We built a 60 by 35-meter reservoir beneath the parking garage entrance to collect some of the excess water in the city center during heavy rainfall. As soon as the sewer system threatens to overflow, the gate of the underground water storage is opened. Within half an hour, the water storage fills with approximately 10 million liters of water. This relieves the sewer system by a quarter.
The Pavilion as a Connection between Underground and Above Ground
The transparent Museum Park Pavilion forms a major pedestrian intersection for traffic flows on various levels. The pavilion bridges the connection between the 4.5-meter-high backbone of the Erasmus MC, the traverse, and the exit of the Museum Park parking garage. Viewed from Museum Park, the glass pavilion is the final element of the transparent traverse. We also designed the bridge that connects the pavilion to the Erasmus MC and Museum Park.
- Program
- Underground parking garage for 1,150 cars with an underground water storage capacity of 10,000 m³
- Location
- Museumpark, Rotterdam
- Completion
- 2010-2013
- Client
- Rotterdam Development Company, Schieland and Krimpenerwaard Water Board; Rotterdam Municipal Public Works Department, Erasmus MC
- Parties involved
- Oostelbos Van den Berg Construction Management, Housing Consultancy, ABT, EGM Architects, Rotterdam Municipal Public Works Engineering, Aronsohn Advisory Consultants, Spark, Twynstra Gudde Management Consultants, Peutz, Caubergen Huygen, Department of Urban Development and Public Housing, OMA, Inside Outside, dS+V, Strukton Betonbouw, Ballast Nedam, BAM
- Photography
- Pieter Kers, Jeroen Musch, Simone Engelen
