The image of the Brabant Library project in the Netherlands designed by MVRDV in 2000 can be seen at “The Hungry Box”. This is an exhibition of the utopian works designed by the Dutch architecture group.
The exhibition “The Hungry Box” is a display of 10 MVRDV projects designed between 1997 and 2007. These designs highlight the characteristically Dutch theme. Their projects aim to maximize density by seemingly swallowing endless interiors.
When it comes to the design sensibilities of the Dutch radical architects MVRDV, turning conventional architecture on its head takes on a whole new literal sense. A good example would be the famous “Mirador” that was built in Madrid, Spain.
MIRADOR
At the frontline of a more ecologically conscious generation, MVRDV seeks to create a more fluid relationship between indoors and outdoors, inhabitants and nature. For that purpose, light and the surrounding landscape are incorporated in the design.
MVRDV have a utopian quality even though critics would be tempted to slam some of their plans. Their urban vision is best reflected in their KM3/3D city project. “Presented in the late 1990s, KM3/3D is a proposal for a global urban grid with cities sitting in 5-kilometer-sided cubes, each 100 kilometers apart, leaving the natural surroundings untouched.”
Visitors to the Benaki exhibition, which was organized by the Netherlands Architecture Institute, can examine the “Hungry Box”.
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