True Colours - Olivia Meng & Pieter Tilman
True Colours transforms the Maashaven in Rotterdam South from dull and grey to colourful, vibrant, and mixed-use. Colouring the buildings creates an attractive, iconic, and positive look which reflects the neighbourhood’s colourful diversity. Directly tackling local issues such as unemployment, low level of education, and low accessibility to social structure, the strategy for growth revolves around one question: what’s in it for them? The framework created will facilitate bottom-up participation. The toolbox gives inhabitants the possibility to access and create spaces that serve them. Within six years, Rotterdam-South and its people will transform the Maashaven to show its true colours.
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