1.5 ConEd Learning Hours
10:45 a.m. ‐ 12:15 p.m.
Is it indeed a great idea for sustainability to have a forest on the facade? How do we create innovative collective housing in timber? And can we create these buildings in immersive architecture, in full participation with the users? These issues fascinate MVRDV, the globally operating Dutch architecture practice with a relatively new portfolio in Canada. This talk will be about relevance and carbon calculations in larger housing projects in Amsterdam, Germany, France, and Belgium, as well as some radical participatory housing projects that allow inhabitants to be their own urban planner and work unhindered by traditional laws and regulations.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand the relevance and urgencies: the Paris Agreement for architects.
2. Learn about carbon as a design parameter with practical guidelines and examples: how can we steer on impact?
3. Understand the challenges and opportunities with bio‐based housing.
4. Learn about the importance of collaboration, immersive architecture, and deep listening
Sanne van der Burgh
Architect and Associate Director, MVRDV
Sanne van der Burgh is an architect and an associate director at MVRDV, and head of the practice’s NEXT (New Experimental Technologies) in‐house R&D group, which focuses on the development of visionary tools that help cities become more dense, more green, and more resilient. These tools and cutting‐edge technologies helped make complex projects such as the Floriade plant layout and the facade of Valley possible. She leads multiple teams within MVRDV, realizing projects of various scales, phases, and across several continents, including the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Depot, the refurbishment of the Lyon Part Dieu shopping center, and a visionary project for revitalizing New Delhi’s sanitation and infrastructure: Barapullah Springs. Sanne is a versatile architect with demonstrated design achievements. In 2019, Architizer named her as one of 25 young architects to watch. In 2021, she was the winner of a Female Frontier Award for “Innovation in Architecture,” organized by World Architecture News. A dedicated advocate for environmental awareness in architecture, urbanism, and our daily lives, Sanne believes in the capacity of design to inspire and have a positive impact on people and their surroundings.