MVRDV designs demountable office building as "source to harvest materials from"
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.
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