SPACE Jun 2024 (No. 679)
The building housing MVRDV’s new offices, Het Industriegebouw, is in itself a large community of creative, technical and entrepreneurial industries. The building was originally designed by the Dutch post-war architect Hugh Maaskant in 1952, who also designed several other iconic buildings in the city. MVRDV wanted to design a ‘workspace that could allow for future, flexible growth and collaboration within the building, just as was the design intention of the original architect’. MVRDV HOUSE is like a house, as its name suggests. The large Family Room becomes the centrepiece for social interaction with the couch, dinning table and vegetation chandelier—a large tribune with a drop-down projection screen for lectures, office presentations or football; the long lunch table, at whic...
