The co-founding of MVRDV is director Winy Maas who grew up in Schijndel. The Glass Farm is inspired by Schijndel traditional farmhouses, of which an ‘average’ image was created to be printed on the building’s exterior glass. The building explores the interaction between past and present, as the historical inspiration becomes a modern, glass building, whose scale is 1.6 that of the original, giving slightly surprising effect. Many people can hardly believe what they are seeing when in front of the Glass Farm. What is it? What technology has been used? Why is it out of scale? And what type of architect would build such a thing? The exhibition tries to answer these questions for the public.

Winy Maas also asked local artists Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jeroen Kooijmans and Hester Oerlemans, who grew up in Schijndel, to contribute to the exhibition with selections from their work. Also on display are high quality scale presentation models from MVRDV’s collection, to give a sense of the firm’s ouvre as the professional context of the Glass Farm. Models on display include the projects Villa VPRO, Expo 2000, The Cloud, Didden Village, Ministry Of Agriculture, La Coruna Station, Jinlin Tower, Chengdu Theatre, DNB Headquarters, The Pushed Slab, Balancing Barn, Market Hall and The Book Mountain.