#urban context
MVRDV
Ypenburg, 2005
The Hague, Netherlands
Image © MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries
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MVRDV
DIDDEN VILLAGE,2006
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Images © MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries
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Philharmonic Hall Szczecin
Szczecin, Poland
2007 - 2014
The building emerges from its urban context, influenced by the steeply pitched roofs and the verticality of the city’s buildings, by the monumentality of the upright ornaments of its neo-Gothic churches. With an expressionist mindset, we have aimed to use geometry to give shape to a new rhythmic composition that conveys feelings by balancing massiveness and verticality. The use of glass as the exterior cladding material highlights how the building contrasts with the conditions of its surrounding environment. It creates a bright, transparent and upstanding object. The building’s interiors are simple. The symphonic hall differs from these in that it is a sculpted object embedded into a barely outlined mineral-like space.
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Museo Jumex
“With this project, the questions were always: How does a foundation like this present itself to the public? What type of space works best for the art? How does it relate to the city? Then you also have to consider how to do a project in Mexico – how to optimize the light, make it suited to the climate and so on – it’s a case of putting all those things together. From the beginning I was very interested in the fact that Mexico City has a climate that allows you to explore the possibilities of opening and closing a building in a much more radical way than you could in northern Europe for instance.” – David Chipperfield
México
Photos by Iwan Baan
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