
green dreams
sustainability
Climate change is the defining challenge of our era, and the built environment has a huge role to play in averting the worst-case scenario. At MVRDV, we push for the best possible sustainable features in all of our buildings, with in-house LEED/BREEAM assessors who liaise with clients, advisors, and project teams to achieve the highest sustainability rating possible within the given scope of work. Our ambition is to become 100% sustainable in our design and production, with our in-house ‘Planet’ expert team working relentlessly to make this happen.
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In our proposal for La Serre d’Issy in Paris, we rethought housing around the idea of sustainability, creating a vertical ‘micro-village’ of irregularly stacked blocks, all wrapped in a greenhouse-like skin. This generated a series of terraces filled with greenery, spaces that strike a balance between the urban and domestic to encourage a sense of community. As a result, this green project demonstrates the principles of not only environmental sustainability, but also social sustainability.
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For the masterplan of the 2022 Floriade horticultural expo, we designed a new, energy-efficient extension to the city centre of Almere that focuses on integrating the qualities of a catalogue of different plant species into residents’ everyday lives. Incorporating plans that will allow the district to generate its own food and energy, Floriade 2022 will be a showcase both for the ways we can live with nature on the local scale and for the ways we can reduce our impact on the environment on a global scale.
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Other such showcases include the Pushed Slab, an office building in the first ‘eco-quarter’ of Paris that uses 1,500 square metres of solar panels and efficient insulation techniques to reduce energy consumption to a quarter of that used by a typical office building of the same size. The Hongqiao Flower Building in Shanghai was also constructed as part of a sustainable masterplan (which in this case was also designed by MVRDV) and also uses a host of proven sustainable techniques, achieving the highest rating, three stars, on the Chinese Green Building Label scheme.
To us sustainability is not just one receipt or a technological application, we see it as a holistic model to design and maintain buildings. Circular principles in construction and the use of wood structures is a step we therefore took with the Book Mountain in Spijkenisse and the Magasin 113 in the port of Gothenburg.
Experience Sustainability
Tainan Spring
Hongqiao Flower Building
Pushed Slab
Le Monolithe
Bjørvika Barcode
Book Mountain
Nieuw Leyden
Almere Floriade 2022
Almere Oosterwold
Versterking Overschild
Resilient by Design
Hyde Park
Expo Pavilion 2.0
La Vallée Verte
(Y)our City Centre
Traumhaus Funari
La Grande Mosaïque
Grand Paris
Almere 2030
Green Villa
Barapullah Springs
Vancouver Kingsway
Gangnam Hills
XinJin Water City
North Sea Wind Park
Torre Huerta Sociopolis
Pig City
Gdynia Park Towers
Chengdu Sky Valley
Huanggang Grid
The Sun Flower Islands
GIZ Campus Eschborn
Shenzhen Super Streets
Bagneux
Schiphol Airport Terminal Area A
Government Quarter Oslo
Les Belvédères
The Coral Tower
Zoo Maubeuge
Lille Lycée Hôtelier
Galije Resort
Gwanggyo Power Centre
Rodovre Sky Village
Montecorvo Eco-City
Stadt Land Schweiz
Matrix 1
Architecture Speaks: The Language of MVRDV
MVRDVH20
House of Clothing
Timeline sustainability
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Construction begins on MVRDV’s sustainable office and laboratory complex Matrix 1
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Kristina Knauf on Resilient Architecture at Scaliurbani Green Edition Seminar, Livorno, Italy

'Urban development, architecture and urban housing in the Netherlands', Sven Thorissen Online Speaker and Panelist at Hessen Trade Invest seminar

'Changing Perspectives and Develop Potential', Sven Thorissen Keynote speaker and panelist at Polis Digital Convention

Tainan Spring and WERK12 win Architizer A+ Awards

MVRDV to transform Expo 2000 Pavilion, revisiting a world-renowned project from the practice’s early years

MVRDV completes Tainan Spring, a lush lagoon and park in the preserved ruin of a mall in central Tainan

CANCELLED - Jacob van Rijs and Jan Knikker at press conference Ode aan het Landschap
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Elija Kozak at Russian Foodservice Forum in Moscow
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Gijs Rikken about The Green Villa in s'Hertogenbosch

Aser Giménez Ortega, MVRDV’s approach to the future of design

Gideon Maasland at Future of Architecture! SHARE Talks Kraków 2019

Peter Mensinga at University Federico II in Naples

Jan Knikker at Festival of Creative Urban Living (AFCUL) in Milton Keynes

Nathalie de Vries: Architecture Speaks – The Language of MVRDV

Kyo Suk Lee at Conference on Future Proof City: Smart Waterfront City

MVRDV Designs Sustainable Office and Laboratory Complex for Amsterdam Science Park

Winy Maas at the First Edition of the Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage d’Ile-de-France

Jan Knikker speaking at Round Table @ Value One, Vienna

MVRDV presents 5 recommendations for a resilient future in the San Francisco bay area

MVRDV gets the green light for Hyde Park, a future 400,000 m² urban district for Hooddorp
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Almere Floriade 2022 viaducts under construction

Pig City included in Eco-Visionaries: Art, Architecture and New Media after the Anthropocene, MAAT Lisbon

HASSELL+ team announced for second stage of the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge

Almere Floriade 2022's first trees planted

Almere Floriade 2022 Receives International Status

Resilient by Design Ideas Presented

Book Mountain Turns Five
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MVRDV joins HASSELL led Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge team

MVRDV, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) and Meinhardt Group in final stage for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol's new terminal

Tainan Axis breaks ground

Hongqiao Flower Building wins AD100 Award for Best Commercial Architecture

MVRDV announces urban vision masterplan for Hyde Park, Haarlemmermeer
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MVRDV redefines affordable suburban housing with Traumhaus
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MVRDV presents La Grande Mosaïque, 600 Hectare Urban Plan In Caen, Normandy

Construction begins on infrastructure for Almere Floriade 2022

MVRDV wins competition Tainan, Taiwan urban lagoon transformation

MVRDV shortlisted for the urban feasibility study for Oslo's new government quarter

Fantastic environmental impact report of MVRDV urbanism in Oslo

MVRDV's new publication 'Book Mountain Spijkenisse - Biography of a Building' is released today
