A newly completed building in the Netherlands is reportedly capable of being dismantled, reused or remodeled entirely.

The Matrix One building, which is home to tech and sustainability companies as well as a laboratory, boasts an interior space of 140,000 sq ft across six floors. Constructed by MVRDV, an architecture and urban design practice, the Matrix One is the largest of the seven buildings that comprise the Matrix Innovation Center in Amsterdam Science Park.

Source: MVRDV

To enable the energy-efficient building to be dismantled and reused, it is constructed so that the bolts and screws used for fastening are accessible. Further, air ducts for the building are also exposed for maintenance while interior walls can be moved or removed altogether.

Meanwhile, a corresponding online materials database has also been developed for monitoring the roughly 120,000 building components used in the making of the building as well as their potential relevance for future reference.

“Matrix One offered an excellent opportunity to test several of the carbon-reduction strategies we have long been investigating at MVRDV," stated MVRDV partner Frans de Witte. "The building is state-of-the-art now, but it also acknowledges that the state-of-the-art is constantly changing. So we made both the interior spaces and the technical installations that serve them as flexible as possible; offices can easily be modified to become labs and vice versa, and labs can be easily upgraded with new systems to accommodate changing standards. In the decades to come, when the building is no longer cutting-edge, it will become a source to harvest materials from for other buildings."

For more on Matrix One, watch the accompanying video that appears courtesy of MVRDV.