Dutch architecture and urban design firm MVRDV have unveiled a truly spectacular and eyecatching new project in the form of Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, a public art depot that uses an unabashedly generous number of mirrored elements across its facade.
The massive facade takes up over 70,000 square feet of space that in turn comprise 1,664 mirror panels. As far as its interior is concerned, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen offers 167,000 square feet of space which is used to showcase a diverse array of paintings, installations, sculptures and other artefacts.
Located in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, this particular art depot building uses a curvaceous design to manage to provide a truly capacious and spectacularly large space without taking up substantial acreage in the park that it's situated in, making it a fine example of modern architecture that makes efficient use of space through eyecatching design.
Image Credit: Ossip van Duivenbode
What's Driving This Trend
- Mirror Architecture
- Designing buildings and structures that incorporate mirrored elements into their design as a way of creating eyecatching, unique and sustainable structures.
- Spacious Public Buildings
- Designing and building public buildings that are spacious and capacious, allowing for the comfortable display of large collections while ensuring sustainability and maximizing available space.
- Curvaceous Building Designs
- Designing buildings with curved and organic shapes that are both functional and visually pleasing, while maximizing the limited available space in urban areas.
Who This Affects Most
- Architecture and Building Design
- Innovation opportunities for architecture and building design firms to incorporate mirrored elements and curvaceous designs into public buildings and structures as a way of creating visually impressive and sustainable structures.
- Museums and Art Galleries
- Opportunities exist for innovative museum and gallery design that focuses on creating spacious, captivating buildings to display vast collections of art and artefacts, while also implementing sustainable building design practices.
- Urban Development
- Opportunities exist to further capitalize on the limited space in urban areas by creating buildings that are spacious while remaining visually stunning and sustainable.
