MVRDV VPRO Dismantle and Reassemble

"Mat-Building is characterized by active interstitial spaces, where matter shapes and channels the space between things, leaving room for the unanticipated."   -Stan Allen

Mat-buildings have embedded within them a logical grid organization. I have started by finding and exposing this grid within the VPRO villa. Once the grid is discovered the individual modules reveal themselves. Next I indexed the modules according to programmatic events that were evident and sparked my interest. This was phase I of this diagrammatic research

Phase II, I dismantled the plan at the thresholds of compartmentalized program, free-flow program, and vertical circulation. Within VPRO there is a clear hierarchy of these programs with the thesis of the project being driven by open areas. Within these areas a social ecosystem develops by which inhabitants employ a collective intelligence and appropriate the surfaces and modify them as they see fit. This is what makes this project a mat-building and by extension a living organism. 

So with the idea of the collective at the forefront, I applied my own model of the swarming analysis to the re-arranged plan in order to further active the interstitial spaces.

LOVE YOU SO MAT

AR Mat building analysis through Horned melon

WATER DROP STUDY

Crystallization Study Shift to Pleaching and Graft-Networking

Research Diagrams - Mat Typo. - Hansel

...PARIS CONCERT HALL

These models reflect a study for a new 2,400 seat Philharmonic Concert Hall for the city of Paris, originally a 2007 competition won by Atelier Jean Nouvel. The site for this project is an existing parking lot on the periphery of the Parc de la Villette and adjacent to the Cité de la Musique.

The models reflect a variety of potential design strategies ranging from low profile courtyard filled mat building, multi-volume aggregative building or a monolithic raised volume. The preferred proposal was one that elevated the main performance hall to produce an exterior covered space below that would serve to sponsor informal music and street type performances by day-to-day users of the larger park area.

Location: Paris, FR
Project Date: Fall 2007

Ryan R. Ludwig
www.adaptationofparts.com