a pop-up urban jungle in Rotterdam
![LANDLAB ZigZag City Blaaks Paradise eyeview_photo by Ossip van Duijvenbode](/sites/default/files/styles/page_letterbox/public/2017-12/LANDLAB%20ZigZag%20City%20Blaaks%20Paradise%20eyeview_photo%20by%20Ossip%20van%20Duijvenbode.jpg?h=46d326e2&itok=93RvG6SG)
Location:
Rotterdam NL
Client:
ZigZag City | International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR)
Category:
Events
Theme:
lab
Team:
Residents, Stay-Okay, City of Rotterdam
Size:
< 1ha
Year:
2014
Type:
realised
ZIG ZAG CITY is a route of interventions and workshops around the theme ‘Urban by Nature’ that highlighted a number of architectural monuments during the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR). LANDLAB transforms Piet Blom’s iconic Cube Houses into a pop-up urban jungle; the tropical plants and palm trees luring passersby into this unexpected secret paradise.
![LANDLAB ZigZag City Blaaks Paradise topview_photo by Ossip van Duijvenbode](/sites/default/files/styles/page/public/2017-12/LANDLAB%20ZigZag%20City%20Blaaks%20Paradise%20topview_photo%20by%20Ossip%20van%20Duijvenbode.jpg?itok=twQQB9nD)
![LANDLAB ZigZag City Blaaks Paradise_concept](/sites/default/files/styles/page/public/2017-12/LANDLAB%20ZigZag%20City%20Blaaks%20Paradise_concept_0.jpg?itok=kg4JbUva)
![LANDLAB ZigZag City Blaaks Paradise eyeview_photo by Ossip van Duijvenbode](/sites/default/files/styles/page/public/2017-12/LANDLAB%20ZigZag%20City%20Blaaks%20Paradise%20eyeview2_photo%20by%20Ossip%20van%20Duijvenbode.jpg?itok=4CteqhtH)
![LANDLAB ZigZag City Blaaks Paradise skyline_photo by Ossip van Duijvenbode](/sites/default/files/styles/page/public/2017-12/LANDLAB%20ZigZag%20City%20Blaaks%20Paradise%20skyline_photo%20by%20Ossip%20van%20Duijvenbode.jpg?itok=i35fWDHG)