Mvrdv´s projects are interested in data and narratives. For MVRDV information, numbers and data are not just the raw material of their designs, but also the source for critical and radical rethinking of architecture and society, creating an alternative “cultural algorithm” reality. MVRDV gives the impression that it wants architecture to become pure information.
When MVRDV begins a project, it starts by assembling information on all the conceivable factors that could play a role in the design of site´s and construction, everything from zoning laws, building regulations and technical requirements to client wishes, climatic conditions and the political and legal history of the site. Architects often view these rules and regulations as bureaucratic foils to their creativity. MVRDV see these datas as the wellspring of Invention.
Data Town is only based upon data. It is a city that wants to be described only by information. A city that does not know any given typography, no prescribed ideology, no representation, no context. Purely huge, only data. Their favourite method: stacking things on top of each other; They translate the chaos of the contemporary city into pure information and then showing the spatial consequences of that datascape through computer-generated designs. MVRDV set out to reveal how our collective choices and behaviors come to mold our constructed environments. So they show processes, which are invisible until this time.
Data Town is in progress and literally endless. Due to the possible changes within axioms DataTown will never be finished. Therefore it will be always under construction.
In Pig City MVRDV proposes a novel way of accommodating the population of 15 million pigs that share the Netherlands with 15 million human inhabitants. To provide the large area the pigs need, a new building type is proposed the high-rise-farm. The prototype is an 80 meter high tower. Each level is divided into animal friendly farm areas including outside play areas. The biogas generated by the pigs´ waste is collected as a clean energy source; fish farms inside the towers provide animal food and help reduce transport. Precious countryside is liberated from the polluting bio-industry. The proposal has led to a nationwide discussion in the Netherlands´Europe´s largest agricultural exporter - about the bio-industry. First farming experiments based on the outcome of the study have started.
The similarity between MVRDV and our association “from face to interface”, is the work and the demonstration of information, whose “surface” finally never stands still, but it´s surface is always in a change because of the constant data flow.
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