Is urban farming possible?
Project by MVRDV - The Why Factory - Stroom Den Haag with animation by Wieland Gouwens www.mvrdv.nl www.thewhyfactory.com www.stroom.nl www.wieland-gouwens.nl
Villa van Vijven by NEXT Architects, is a truly collective and collaborative project, financed and commissioned by five families (19 people in total) who wanted to build a home that they could otherwise never afford: an architecturally high-impact retreat set in extensive gardens, with great views of the surrounding landscape and nearby lake.
With the idea of communal living all too prone to conjure visions of student squalor or hippy homeliness, Villa van Vijven comes as a refreshing surprise. The strikingly sculptural bright orange building, reclining in the flat Dutch landscape, accommodates five families under a single, stylish roof. And there’s not a whiff of carob in the air.
