由MVRDV为开发商Edge设计的戏剧性的、以地质学为灵感的、由植物覆盖的高层建筑Valley，在周五的一个仪式上正式开放。这座占地75,000平方米的建筑最近被Emporis奖宣布为世界上新摩天大楼，以其67、81和100米的三座塔楼和壮观的悬臂式公寓在阿姆斯特丹的Zuidas社区脱颖而出。 该建筑在几个方面与众不同：首先，它将办公室、商店、餐饮、文化设施和公寓结合在一起；其次，与Zuidas其他地方的封闭式建筑不同，每个人都可以通过两个外部石梯进入蜿蜒在塔楼之间的绿色山谷。该建筑的广泛种植，由景观设计师Piet Oudolf设计，容纳了大约13,500种年轻植物、灌木和树木。随着这些植物在未来几年的成熟，它们将给山谷带来越来越多的绿色外观，使该建筑成为一个绿色城市的宣言。
Valley, the dramatic, geology-inspired, plant-covered high-rise designed by MVRDV for developer Edge, was officially opened in a ceremony on Friday. The 75,000-square-metre building, which was recently declared the world’s best new skyscraper by the Emporis Awards, stands out in Amsterdam’s Zuidas neighbourhood with its three towers of 67, 81, and 100 metres and its spectacular cantilevered apartments. The building distinguishes itself in several ways: firstly, it combines offices, shops, catering, cultural facilities, and apartments in one building; secondly, unlike the closed-off buildings elsewhere in the Zuidas, the green valley that winds between the towers on the fourth and fifth floors is accessible to everyone via two external stone staircases. The building’s extensive planting, designed by landscape architect Piet Oudolf, hosts approximately 13,500 young plants, shrubs, and trees. As these mature over the coming years, they will give Valley an increasingly green appearance, making the building a manifesto for a greener city.
Valley项目试图将绿色和人文元素带回阿姆斯特丹祖达斯荒凉的办公环境中。这是一座多面建筑;建筑的外边缘是光滑的镜面玻璃外壳，与商业区的环境相适应。在这个外壳内，建筑有一个完全不同的，更诱人的自然外观，仿佛玻璃块已经破碎，露出内部充满天然石头和绿色植物的崎岖岩石表面。
Valley is an attempt to bring a green and human dimension back to the inhospitable office environment of Amsterdam Zuidas. It is a building with multiple faces; on the outer edges of the building is a shell of smooth mirrored glass, which fits the context of the business district. Inside this shell, the building has a completely different, more inviting natural appearance, as if the glass block has crumbled away to reveal craggy rock faces inside replete with natural stone and greenery.
在这座三塔建筑群的各个位置都可以看到令人惊叹的城市景色——当然是公寓，但尤其是最高塔顶部的空中酒吧，游客可以通过一楼的Molteni旗舰店进入。建筑的布局是为居民、工作人员和游客量身定制的:在三层地下停车场的顶部，办公室占据了较低的七层，公寓位于八层及以上。
这座建筑的大部分都是向公众开放的:从街道上蜿蜒向上的公共步行道到中央山谷，再到Grotto，一个在一楼形成有顶街道的中庭，这里是Sapiens实验室——年轻科学家的温床——很快就会开放。石窟通过两个大天窗与外界相连，这两个天窗是山谷上方的浅水池的两倍，它的天然石材地板、墙壁和天花板——山谷和塔的表面使用的是同样的石头——清楚地表明，建筑的所有公共区域都是明显的地质构造的一部分。
Various locations throughout the three-tower complex offer breathtaking views of the city – the apartments, of course, but especially the sky bar at the top of the tallest tower, which visitors can access via the Molteni flagship store on the ground floor. The building’s layout is tailored to a mixture of residents, workers, and visitors: on top of the three-storey underground car park, offices occupy the lower seven floors, with apartments located on the eighth floor and up. Much of the building is open to the public: from the publicly accessible footpath that zig-zags up to the central valley from the street level, to the Grotto, an atrium that forms a covered street on the first floor where the Sapiens Lab – a breeding ground for young scientists – will soon open. The grotto is connected to the outside by two large skylights that double as shallow water pools in the valley level above, and its natural stone flooring, walls, and ceilings – the same stone used on the surfaces of the valley and towers – makes clear that all the public areas of the building are part of the same apparently geological formation.
Valley的设计和建造完全是定制的，需要数百名设计师、工程师、建筑商、顾问，当然还有客户的持续承诺。极其复杂的形状需要对精细的细节作出特别的承诺，以进一步增强设计理念。
MVRDV的技术专家创造了一系列定制的数字工具来完善该建筑，从确保每个公寓都有足够的光线和视野的工具，到使超过40,000块大小不一的石砖装饰建筑外墙的明显随机图案成为可能的程序。198套公寓中的每一套都有一个独特的平面图，这是由Heyligers建筑事务所的室内设计所实现的。而塔楼离奇的悬挑是由于创新的工程，包括11个用螺栓固定在混凝土建筑上的钢制 "特殊"，使整体外观更上一层楼。
The design and construction of Valley is utterly bespoke, requiring the sustained commitment of hundreds of designers, engineers, builders, consultants, and of course the client. The enormously complex shape required a special commitment to fine detailing that further enhances the design concept. MVRDV’s technology experts created a series of custom digital tools to perfect the building, from a tool that ensured every apartment had adequate light and views, to a programme that made possible the apparently random pattern of over 40,000 stone tiles of varying sizes that adorn the building’s fac?ades. Each of the 198 apartments has a unique floorplan, made possible by the interior designs by Heyligers Architects. And the outlandish cantilevers of the towers are possible thanks to innovative engineering, including eleven steel “specials” bolted to the concrete building that take the overall appearance to the next level.
景观设计师Piet Oudolf开发了一个矩阵，为大楼的每个位置选择合适的植物，考虑到风、阳光、温度和维护等因素。例如，树木主要分布在较低的楼层，而最上面的楼层主要支持小型植物。总共有超过271棵年轻的树木和灌木以及大约13,500种较小的植物占据了天然石材种植槽，代表了220种不同的植物种类。
在未来的几年里，随着绿色植物的不断增长，该建筑将成熟为设计团队所设想的郁郁葱葱的外观。这个景观的生物多样性得到了鸟类和蝙蝠箱以及各种蜜蜂和昆虫旅馆的进一步支持。通过自动灌溉系统和 "外墙园艺师 "的维护，露台上的树木和植物将对生活和工作在山谷的人们的福祉产生积极的影响。
Landscape architect Piet Oudolf developed a matrix to select the right plants for each location in the building, taking into account factors such as wind, sunlight, temperature, and maintenance. Trees, for example, are largely found on the lower floors, while the uppermost levels mainly support small plants. In total, more than 271 young trees and shrubs and approximately 13,500 smaller plants occupy the natural stone planters, representing 220 different plant species. In the coming years, the building will mature into the lush appearance of the design team’s vision as the greenery continues to grow. The biodiversity of this landscape is further supported by bird- and bat boxes as well as various bee and insect hotels. Maintained using an automatic irrigation system and by “fac?ade gardeners”, the trees and plants on the terraces will positively affect the well-being of people living and working in Valley.
Valley结合了可持续性、技术和健康领域的见解。该建筑的能源性能比当地法规要求的好30%，它获得了BREEAM-NL商业空间优秀认证，居住区在GPR建筑尺度上获得了8分(满分10分)，GPR是一种荷兰的测量工具，从能源、环境、健康、使用质量和未来价值五个主题对建筑进行评分。办公空间集成了最新的智能技术，包括基于ip的楼宇自动化系统和各种传感器，以监测实际使用情况。
Valley combines insights in the field of sustainability, technology, and health. The building’s energy performance is 30% better than local regulations require, it has received BREEAM-NL Excellent certification for the commercial spaces, and the residential area scored an 8 out of 10 on the GPR Building Scale, a Dutch measurement tool that scores buildings across five themes of energy, environment, health, quality of use, and future value. The latest smart technologies are integrated in the office spaces, including IP-based Building Automation Systems and various sensors linked to monitoring actual usage.
Valley的建设耗时四年，首批居民和企业家于2021年底入住。上周五，该建筑的所有者RJB集团公司和开发商Edge主持了开幕仪式，该项目终于准备好完全供公众使用。
The construction of Valley took four years, with the first residents and entrepreneurs moving into the building at the end of 2021. With the opening ceremony hosted last Friday by the building’s owner RJB Group of Companies and developer Edge, the project is finally ready to be occupied fully by the public.
这座建筑引人注目的设计已经引起了媒体的关注和争论，尤其是荷兰媒体。“MVRDV再次表明，梦的图像是可以构建的，”《人民报》的克尔斯滕·汉内马解释说。“建筑师使用3D软件输入日光、景观、冷负荷和噪声暴露的要求，他们‘合理化’了设计。不规则形状的立面最终有大约十个不同的角度，天然石材覆盖层像一个拼图一样连接在一起。”
Already the building’s striking design has attracted media attention and debate, especially in the Dutch press. “Once again, MVRDV shows that dream images can be made buildable,” explains Kirsten Hannema for de Volkskrant. “Using 3D software, in which the architects entered requirements with regard to daylight, view, cooling load and noise exposure, they ‘rationalised’ the design. The irregularly shaped facades eventually have about ten different angles, with the natural stone cladding fitted together like a puzzle.”
"祖伊达斯山脉石质沙漠中的一片绿洲，"伯纳德-胡尔斯曼在《NRC Handelsblad》中写道。"不仅仅是因为垂直的森林和悬臂式的建筑部件，其中11个部件非常大，似乎可以漂浮起来，山谷与过去四分之一世纪在阿姆斯特丹环形公路A10和Buitenveldert区之间建造的所有塔楼不同。底层是餐饮店和商店，下面七层是办公室，上面是198套形状各异的昂贵的出租房，Valley是Zuidas地区第一座工作、生活和娱乐混合的建筑"。
“An oasis in the stone desert on the Zuidas,” writes Bernard Hulsman in the NRC Handelsblad. “It is not only because of the vertical forest and the cantilevered building parts, eleven of which are so large that they seem to float away, that Valley differs from all the towers that have been built over the past quarter of a century between the Amsterdam ring road A10 and the Buitenveldert district. With catering establishments and shops on the ground floor, offices on the bottom seven floors and, above that, 198 expensive rental homes in many shapes and sizes, Valley is the first building in the Zuidas where working, living, and entertainment are mixed.”
