MVRDV

MVRDV, a Dutch architecture firm, founded in Rotterdam in 1991. MVRDV is an abbreviation of the last name of the architect Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV is known for experimental design and has a large share in the renewal of Dutch architecture.

Foundation

Maas, van Rijs and de Vries in 1990 made ​​her diploma in architecture at the TU Delft. Winy Maas also studied urban planning. Prior to founding MVRDV Maas Van Rijs and worked, among other things for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture Rem Koolhaas.

Maas, van Rijs and de Vries took part in together Europan 2 in Berlin, a competition of 20 countries for young architects and urban planners. The three won with her design 'Berlin Voids' and decided to continue to cooperate. So they founded the office MVRDV, the next projects of construction with urban planning and landscape architecture is concerned and published reports on the subject. Meanwhile, more than 30 employees.

Known projects

MVRDV was known with unusual projects quickly. In 1993 she designed the Villa VPRO for broadcasting in Hilversum, which was completed in 1997. In the same year a sensational housing project in Amsterdam was completed, the 100 WOZOCOs ( from the Dutch woonzorgcomplex ). From the main facade of the nine -storey building monumental cubes protrude up to eleven meters horizontally. This cantilevered blocks are in turn preceded by colorful balconies. For this construction the Merkelbachprijs were MVRDV in 1997.

For the Expo 2000 in Hannover MVRDV designed the pavilion of the Netherlands, which was designated as the most impressive building of the World Exposition. Seven Dutch landscape types were aufeinendergeschichtet in a building. So they took their own trademarks on the stacking of architecture, and themed the same time the complexity and density of architecturally Netherlands.

2002 Silodam in Amsterdam was completed, which is right on the water and resembles a loaded container ship.

The residential tower Mirador in a Madrid suburb is characterized by a striking breakthrough, on which a lookout terrace is located.

Recognizability

Striking recurring elements in the work of MVRDV are stacks in different variants. This results in large blocks, which give an answer to a central aspect of their investigations: The increasing density of development of the cities, not least in the Netherlands.