Co-edited by MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs and MVRDV partner Jan Knikker, this book presents twenty-five recently completed projects in Europe, North America, and Asia. Among them are several that show the potentials of reuse and transformation, such as 'High Profile', a lamp made from leftover metal profiles, or 'Seoullo 7017', the transformation of an elevated highway in Seoul into an urban park. Many of the projects also have a distinct public dimension, welcoming people in, around...

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Spacematrix introduceert stedelijke dichtheid als instrument voor stadsontwikkeling en stadsontwerp. Berghauser Pont en Haupt ontrafelen op beelden gebaseerde termen als ‘urbaniteit’, ‘compacte stad’ en ‘parkstad’ door vraagtekens te plaatsen bij de betrouwbaarheid van zulke begrippen en door kritisch na te gaan of het mogelijk is om die te herdefiniëren met behulp van het begrip dichtheid. De belangstelling van de auteurs voor dichtheid is niet in de eerst...

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How to Build an Indian House focuses on one of Mumbai’s and India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. It documents, analyses and represents robust examples of different housing types in the city. Along with the documentary drawings and photographs, Sameep Padora developed a series of analytical models in order to understand spatial organization and infrastructure in residential building typologies.

This documentation is particularly perti...

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