The catalogue uses a few principles based on building typologies, types of roofs, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the urban challenges we face. These parameters are translated to icons, providing a clear view of how the different ideas fit within the urban framework.
The ideas vary from simple to complex and from light to heavy interventions. It takes you from butterfly gardens to golf courses and from care centres to cemeteries. It is set up as a cookbook, wherein the parameters are the ingredients. A format that helps in translating the designs and ideas to different contexts and cities.
“With this catalogue, we want to inspire not only individuals but also the big players such as developers and housing corporations to invest in rooftops”
Léon van Geest, Rotterdamse Dakendagen
Rooftop Catalogue addresses legal, financial and functional issues that often come into play when making plans for rooftops. The value of using rooftops is already underlined by successful stories from across the globe, but the main question remains: Who is going to pay? Hopefully, Rooftop Catalogue provides the inspiration to not only think about return on investment but think about social and sustainable value as well. Because there is a lot of room on top of our cities to tackle our urban challenges.
Rooftop Catalogue
Author: MVRDV, Winy Maas, Sanne van Manen
Publisher: Rotterdamse Dakendagen
Publishing date: June 2021
Paperback, Dutch/English, 148 pages
ISBN: 978-90-903-4772-1