Beginning with the belief that changes in social behaviour lead to transformations in our constructed environment, the studio MVRDV creates design projects that are free from the influence of their physical environment in such a way that the contexts in which they are inserted are frequently altered, if not completely reinvented. In fact, MVRDV intelligently employs, overlaps, and weaves together characteristic elements of the landscape – just as if these were themselves construction materials – with their own architectural design in order to generate new landscapes.
Every project acts as both a spark and a point of departure for new analyses and deeper investigations that help the firm to continue to understand and address the widest range of design situations better. The results of this initial phase are then used as instructional tools to communicate the methodological approaches and working techniques that MVRDV employs.
More than the forms themselves, the reasoning that led to their creation seems to take pride of place. As MVRDV’s Winy Maas once said in an interview, ‘the form helps to demonstrate the content’, and in order to achieve this, the Dutch studio detaches itself from the architectural styles and languages of the past – the same ones from which, however, the firm has shamelessly and freely borrowed on various occasions.
An example of MVRDV’s modus operandi is the Gwang Gyo Power Centre located 35 km south of Seoul in a valley surrounded by forested hills and with a lake nearby.
Unlike the majority of Korean multi-functional centres realized in the past, particularly those consisting of a tower set on a base equipped for shopping and located in a valley, the solution proposed expanding up onto the hills in order to take advantage of natural ventilation, which is useful in the reduction of smog and overheating in the hotter months of the year. Housing, offices, shopping malls, and spaces for cultural and leisure activities all find a place in the covered areas separated by various social zones. This arrangement makes the characteristic terraced rings, which are comprised of the outermost part of the conical architectural forms, the design’s undisputed protagonists. Being connected to the hills, roads, and nearby lake, these rings transform the overall design—including the architecture—into a kind of park.
Conceived in this way, the project does not suffocate its visitors; on the contrary, it accentuates the various green areas, linking them to one another and, thereby, creating a new hilly landscape.
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