GROUP 1
Mies Van Der Rohe
- Limiting excess and clutter to emphasize open space
- Planar elements for harmonization with existing landscape
- Minimal skin and bones framework to reveal the individual character
- Unification achieved without ornamentation through the character of enclosed space
- Reducing distractions to emphasize the beauty in essential elements of our lives
Nathalie de Vries (of MVRDV)
- Reuse of materials for Sustainability
- Challenging existing thinking through optimizing design solutions
- Focus on urban landscape and the public realm
- Radical investigative spatial research
- Multicultural habitat for a rich social life
- Turn urbanism into landscape architecture
GROUP 2
Mies Van Der Rohe
- Creating a strong relationship between a house and its natural surroundings
- Reduce distractions to focus on essential elements and emphasise objects Minimalism
- Promoting openness and simplicity in materiality
- Simplifying building form to achieve purpose and focus on functional amenities
- Minimal framework to create free-flowing 'skin and bones' Architecture
Building names, left to right, top to bottom: Farnsworth House, Barcelona Pavilion, S. R. Crown Hall, Villa Tugendhat, Seagram building
Nathalie de Vries (of MVRDV)
- Promoting Openness; Minimum Materials, Maximum Façade
- Mixture of different urban characteristics and lifestyles; collating social qualities and intrinsic values
- Simultaneous access to interior and exterior
- Elevating and cantilevering objects, to create space
- Flexibility in building function; providing sustainable character
Building names, left to right, top to bottom: Westerdok Apartments, Vertical Village, DNB Bank Headquarters, WoZoCo, Rødovre Skyscraper
GROUP 3
Mies Van Der Rohe
- Infinite freedom of movement through punctuated linear space
- Limitation of excess to emphasise open space
- Integration with the surroundings by the blurring of the interior and exterior
- Complementing the local environment by the juxtaposition its form, materiality and proportions with the surrounding landscape
- Creation on tranquillity and escape by means of an inhabitable sculpture
Nathalie de Vries (of MVRDV)
- Making repetitive forms feel unique through changing materiality and scale
- Reflection of the environment in structural forms to integrate the landscape with the urban fabric
- Encouraging social interaction through the enclosure of space
- Creating shared circulation to integrate the community
- Championing vertical living by adhering to the urban demands of population increases
