MVRDV’s latest housing development goes ceramic | News | Architonic
Don’t be fooled. Size really does matter. Particularly when it comes to new urban housing developments, where the challenge of squaring housing density with quality of life and sustainability remains key. Leading architectural practice MVRDV chose to approach this conundrum from a fresh angle – or series of angles, rather – when it delivered its Ilot Queyries project in Bordeaux. Here, a 308-home apartment building, organised around a courtyard, takes the form of a richly geometric volume, where facades and roofs merge and differing heights mitigate the scale of the site, but also ensure that every dwelling is privy to a certain number of sunlight hours a day. For the exterior of the structure, MVRDV chose a ceramic material, specifically a product from premium Germa…
