Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created Matrix One, a laboratory and office building in Amsterdam designed to be dismantled into reusable parts.
The six-storey building has a steel frame structure and prefabricated hollow-core concrete floor slabs, which were assembled without fixed connections so that parts can be detached and reused after the building's life span.
The building contains offices and laboratories
According to MVRDV, over 90 per cent of the building's materials can be reused.
"In the decades to come when the building is no longer cutting-edge, it will become a source to harvest materials from for other buildings," said MVRDV partner Frans de Witte.
Matric One was designed to be demountable
Located in the Amsterdam Science Park, a hub for researchers and entrepreneurs in science and sustainable technology, MVRDV designed Matrix One as an example of sustainable building design that meets Amsterdam's energy performance targets. The 13,000-square-metre building is the largest of seven buildings that make up the Matrix Innovation Center and acts as a social gathering space for the campus. It has achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating, the second-highest rating for a building's environmental performance.
The building has a large internal staircase that was designed as a social space
Matrix One has a glazed envelope decorated with aluminium facade modules arranged in a geometric pattern that outlines the main internal staircase.
Floors in the workspaces ...