CAN A BUILDING UNFOLD TO BECOME AN INVENTORY?

// MATRIX //

MVRDV NEXT

As the main building of the Matrix Innovation Center, Matrix One aims to be a sustainable example for the other buildings in the Amsterdam Science Park and beyond. The building is designed to be demountable. Simple connections such as screws and bolts allow elements to be detached and reused when various parts of the building are updated; even the building’s floors are made using prefabricated concrete slabs with no fixed connections, allowing them to be reused at the end of the building’s lifespan. As a result, over 90% of the building’s materials can be reused again later.

Our goal was to present this side of the project and draw a new image of the building as an inventory. 90% of over 120'000 individual components means that there are about 108'000 components to be reused. Since awareness is one of the most crucial points to make that happen, we created a video to visually tell this story and raise sensibility.