WEEK IN REVIEW WATCH: INSIDE MVRDV’S PORTLANTIS IN ROTTERDAM
designboom attends the opening of Portlantis, a monumental exhibition building by MVRDV honoring the maritime legacy and future of Rotterdam. Set along the coast, the project is ‘a museum with no collection’, designed to tell the story about the Dutch city's relationship with the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port. 'From when I was a kid, the Rotterdam Harbor was impressive, I loved the landscape of boxes,' MVRDV co-founder and lead project architect, Winy Maas, tells us. 'I biked and hiked over the gigantic infrastructures. It is the opposite of the cuteness of the Netherlands, it's the introduction to the world.' Watch our tour of Portlantis and learn more about our conversation here, and explore more recent interviews here. EXERCISE BIKE CONVERTS KINETIC ENERGY INTO ELECTRICITY Made of recycled aluminum and birch plywood, HR Bank is an exercise bike concept designed to convert kinetic energy into electricity. The bike transforms pedaling and solar input into stored power within a 2000 Wh battery, where 15 minutes of cycling are enough to fully charge a smartphone. See more submissions by our readers here, and find out how to upload your own project here. The weekly is an inside review curated by Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou. |
