Small-scale living in the city center and growing your own food is a dream for many. This also applies to Roof Villages FoundationThey are currently working on the realization of a real roof village on the building The Crown in Rotterdam West. In the Rooftop Walk parking garage, they visualize what a rooftop village might look like. Van der Tol BV has added a real food forest to it.
Roof villages
Dakdorpen (Roof Villages) is a collective of young urban innovators. The large-scale construction of green rooftops is proceeding far too slowly for the collective. The main reason they see for this is that the investment is not financially viable. Their solution: combine green rooftops with roof villages featuring compact and sustainable housing options like tiny houses. The roof owner recoups their investment through rental or sale of the homes. The residents have an exciting place to live and maintain the green "garden." This way, the city becomes more dense and green, a true win-win situation. In recent years, the collective has conducted several pilot projects on various rooftops in North Rotterdam to experience and gain insight into what it's like to live on a roof.
Rotterdam Rooftop Days previously spoke with the founders of the Roof Villages Foundation during Rooftopics. Leather here everything about the process and (future) living on rooftops.