MVRDV completes ambitious mass housing scheme located on the outskirts of Pune, India

2018-11-29T16:13:00-05:00

MVRDV has completed 'Future Towers,' a massive residential complex comprised of 1,068 homes, amenities, public facilities, parks and courtyards. Combining strategies from both Europe and India, where the project is located, the ambitious scheme is the Dutch firm's attempt to answer the prevalence of monotonous large scale housing estates cropping up on city outskirts.

“In Asia, cities are growing so fast, and uniform repetitive residential towers are the norm”, says Jacob van Rijs, the principal architect on this project and founding partner of the firm. "With our design, we are making an effort to offer more variety and bring people from more different backgrounds together....The MVRDV team thoroughly researched modern Indian housing and came up with a system to create a mix of different types of apartment inside one building."

The design settles for a structure with peaks and valleys organized around hexagonal court...

Curbing violence through better architecture

2015-04-01T13:50:00-04:00

Alastair Graham hopes Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading, an initiative of the government of Cape Town, South Africa, will end better. He calls the effort, which has been revamping areas around train stations since 2006, part of “a package of potential solutions … either improving safety, or improving socioeconomic situation, or improving quality of life.” The project is aimed at curbing violence by augmenting the public spaces in which violent crime frequently occurs [...].

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MVRDV completes ambitious mass housing scheme located on the outskirts of Pune, India

Curbing violence through better architecture