This project was set at Rotterdam, Holland.
We went on a site visit in November 2011 to see the city and the the surrounding area and give a context to the site.
We travelled via the Channal tunell through France and Beligium into Hollond.
The changes in landscape though out the journey were clear. The topography of the land changed greatly between England and Holland. England is famous for it's rolling hills and beautiful valleys, while holland has very few natural changes in tography; the ones it doesn have are designed to manage the risk of flooding due the mojority of the country being below sea level.
The lay out of the fields in Holland is also very formal with very few curved or diaganol lines.
This is reflected in the Architectural layout through the city.
The city also showed how different materials have been used since the war to rebuild the city. The use of concrete, glass, plastic and copper within the city has been used to creat intresting and inertive designs for buildings and bridges. Rotterdam does still have a few older buildings which survices the war and these showed us examples of expert brick work and stone masionary. The mixure of the old, the nw and the rebuild make the city feel new and open and provide a good architectural mixture from it's users.
