斯海恩德尔的市集广场在第二次世界大战中受损,场地内曾有农场、住宅、商店、院子、果园等,中间经历了无数次扩建和修缮。1980年25岁的威尼·马斯曾给市议会写信,建议在位于教堂、市政厅和主街中间的广场空间建一座新的建筑,这个想法终于在2000年的时候得到采纳。自那以后,MVRDV提出了多种方法填充这个异常空阔的广场空间。玻璃农场是MVRDV为这块场地所做的第7个方案,之前的方案还包括剧院、舞台、甚至高塔等各类设施。 The market square in Schenectady was damaged during the Second World War. There were farms, houses, shops, yards, orchards in the area, with numerous expansions and repairs in between. In 1980, 25-year-old Vinic Mas wrote a letter to the city council, suggesting that a new building be built in the square space between the church, the city hall and the main street. The idea was finally adopted by the year 2000. Since then MVRDV has proposed several ways to fill this unusually open square space. The glass farm is MVRDV’s seventh plan for the site, with previous programs including theaters, stages, and even towers.