Fieldwork is a landscape architecture studio in Rotterdam. We design parks, waterfronts, schoolyards and streets that store rainwater and get used every day.
Rotterdam lies below the sea, and the rain keeps getting heavier. So we treat every square as a reservoir, every schoolyard as a sponge and every quay as a place the tide is allowed to visit.
what we design
Places the city can flood into and still use the next morning.
Edges where the tide is part of the design, not a problem behind a wall.
Asphalt swapped for soil, shade and somewhere to climb.
Streets that keep rainwater where it falls, in planted verges and open gutters.
Water squares, schoolyard programmes and climate-adaptive streets. We design from the catchment down to the kerb, and we draw the planting as carefully as the drainage.
Landscape that does the water work on site: storage, infiltration and planting that makes a scheme better to live next to, in a downpour and on a dry afternoon.
the studio
Fieldwork was founded by Mirte Bakker and Joost van Laar. We are a studio of 22 in Rotterdam, and we still work most things out by cutting, layering and moving pieces of a model around a table.
careers
If you want your drawings to get wet, send us your portfolio and a few lines about a place you would change.
Send your portfolioA square that floods, a schoolyard, a stretch of waterfront. Tell us where it is and what the water does there.
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