MVRDV's DESIGN METHODS

by Michael Lengkey 25209009



the architectural approaches of the three famous figures who proceed as a team namely MVRDV where they combining a range of disciplines, including urban planning, landscape design, furniture design and architecture also fair enough known for their active role in developing and implementing a broad-minded approaches in their architectural theories.

URBAN PLANNING
radical methodical research on density and on public realms, through investigation and use of the complex amounts of data that accompany contemporary design processes and space are shape methodically also they stick to emphasised the conflicting character of the various program components by weaving them together.

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN & FURNITURE DESIGN
clients and users are intensively involved at an early stage of the design process. reactions to the first designs can be processed quickly, creating a high degree of support for the design and encouraging the sort of new insights that can lead to specific innovative solutions, generalism and verve is linked with the specialization and thoroughness of the other team members. The products of this approach can vary therefore completely. They range from buildings of all types and sizes, to urban designs, publications and installations.

theoretical approaches
turning the process of conception into spatial or organizational research, in which they involve, from the project’s premises onward, the greatest possible number of contributors and data. in every instance, the spatial consequences, and the limits and potential of a sweeping overview of situations, are examined and shown. the limits encountered are tested by a systematic intensification, so as to reveal the extremities. this constitutes a radicalization that helps to identify these limits, and makes the formulation of a discourse about them possible. the extreme diversity of these data thus finds a pragmatic transcription in a spatial matrix consisting of the superposition of the diagrams that distribute these data (datascapes).

At last,
MVRDV have a utopian quality even though critics would be tempted to slam some of their plans as Le Corbusier-inspired modernist dystopias.