Making room for the river
Rotterdam’s strategy is to make more room for water. The city has predicted it will need to accommodate for 600 million liters of extra water over the next five years. [1] That’s enough water to fill 200 Olympic-sized pools. Because creating a huge lake in the city is out of the question, enter the concept of the water squares – spreading water capacity throughout the city. In a project that parks cars and water, Rotterdam has built a parking deck in Museumpark that accounts for 10,000 cubic meters of water storage[2]. The parking deck not only holds water within it, but also contains water above it and sits next to and under a public space.