Rotterdam open rivercity

This article shows the results of the research developed during the Spring Semestre 2010 in the EMU TU Delft course, under the guidance of H. Mayer and W. Hermans, about the urban development process in the river Maas floodplain of Rotterdam. The research starts moving from the concept of "resisting the river", feeling safe inside the dyke, to a "resilient approach" linked with the awareness of the natural process. In this way the Maas is not understood as a dangerous river to be controlled, but becomes a source od possibilities to integrate the whole large region of Rotterdam. By intervening on the process and not on the shape of the river the free dynamics of the fluxes will design the land.