Hoekse Lijn
Project data
| Project | Towards the setting sun |
| Location | Hook of Holland is a district of Rotterdam and part of the town of Schiedam |
| Purpose | The stations along a Dutch metro line were aesthetically upgraded with fair-faced concrete portals. A metro line used by passengers to visit local beaches runs between the towns of Hook of Holland and Schiedam. So that passengers can always recognise which stations served a beach, the authorities decided to make them easy to identify from a fair-faced concrete portal bearing a relief of a stylised school of fish on its surface. |
| Formwork systems | Fair-faced concrete portal with a relief of a stylised school of fish on its surface. In addition, the concrete was pigmented so that passengers would notice steps of colour from yellow to orange. |
| Special features | The fair-faced concrete portals are pigmented and given a special surface relief. |
| Graphic artist | Rotterdam Designer Erik Sandifort |
| Project architect | M.P.A.M. Marc Verheijen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
