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The campus and offers grandstand seating for presentations, tables for informal meetings and coffee break areas. The space becomes a meeting-point for workers from different fields to meet and discuss their ideas. The interiors designed by MVRDV in collaboration with up architecture include green walls visible through the glass façade and soft felt finishes to improve the acoustics, establishing a calm, cosy atmosphere in the common areas. A ground-floor restaurant and a bar at the top of the staircase offer services for workers from all the nearby Matrix buildings; the building also contains a -seat auditorium, making it an ideal centre of knowledge creation and sharing.

The building’s sustainability is not limited to strictly technical measures, but also embraces users’ well-being in a holistic manner, as Matrix ONE promotes a healthy lifestyle by encouraging use of the stairs rather than Phone Number List the elevators, set deeper back in the building. By the secondary entrance there is convenient bicycle parking, easily visible from the foyer, to encourage bicycle commuting. These sustainable measures and a focus on health have earned the building BREEAM-Excellent certification. MVRDV’s Matrix ONE demonstrates that application of the principles of the circular economy in construction is possible, and encourages architects to come up with new design proposals.Rather than emphasising the mass and weight of the building, however.



The entrance roof is distinguished by an intricate grid of beams that creates a play of light and shadow, defining the perimeters of the public event space below. A design that creates a light and captivating visual impact of the underlying area that includes interconnected walkways, kiosks, essential amenities, a shop, a versatile amphitheatre, seating areas and information points. These elements are strategically positioned near the park entrances and exits. In line with the philosophy of A. Lerman Architects, led by Asaf Lerman, already authors of the Jerusalem National Museum and the Mandel School at The Hebrew University, MIDBARIUM becomes another example for their sustainable design.