Our Market Hall project in Rotterdam epitomises the goal of hybrid buildings. An arch formed by 228 apartments provides a covered space for a public market; in this way, private money helped to fund a public space, which – according to a study by market research company Strabo – attracts as many visitors on its own as a medium-sized city centre.

In our design for Vanke 3D City in Shenzhen, a mixture of programmes is stacked in a series of blocks, which come together to create a single building with a network of interconnected public terraces, parks, and atriums—a three-dimensional city of its own.

At Valley, a 75,000-square-metre residential, office, and commercial building in Amsterdam, the shape of the building invites people to explore. Its cascading terraces resemble a geological structure, with a public route leading over the building’s plinth, through the “valley” created by the apartments. Here social interaction is reinforced by a scripted façade that supports interaction between the buildings mix of dwellings, offices, retail, culture, and gastronomy.