The MVRDV House is located close by to the firm’s famous project the Markthal, a stunning tunnel-shaped food market integrated with apartments. The 2,400-square-meter office houses 140 staff members and 150 work spaces. The MVRDV House also shares the building with a large community of creative, technical, and entrepreneurial industries.
“The expanding MVRDV family needed a new house; so this is exactly what we tried to capture. Everything that the home requires, a living room, a dining room, a sofa for the whole house to sit together,” explains MVRDV co-founder Jacob van Rijs. “This was also a chance to capture how we work and function as an office, then tailor-make new spaces that would boost our working methods and output; efficient spaces that enhance the collaborative ways in which we work.”
The office is centered on the large Family Room, a light-filled communal space with “the couch” symbolized by timber stairs that double as seating and overlook a drop-down projection screen; the long “dinner table” for communal dining; and a “vegetation chandelier” that hangs above the reception. An open-plan working area takes up a large section of the central space. Meeting rooms are slotted behind transparent, multicolored glazed walls on two levels. Each meeting room is customized to a different theme, from the Drawing Room with whiteboard magnet walls for workshops to the Game Room set up for informal meetings at the table-tennis table. All aspects of the design were created to promote collaboration.
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