We desperately need forests in the city. They provide shade, clean air, and provide habitat for insects and birds. If all the flat roofs in Rotterdam were to have a small roof forest, they could even form a large new urban nature reserve: the Cloud Forest. The Cloud Forest is the brainchild of LOLA Landscape Architects . On the roof of the Bijenkorf department store, the roof forest is gradually taking over the entire roof through veins of substrate and vegetation.
