VPro is a Dutch non-profit organisation broadcasting nationally on public radio and television. In 1997 VPro moved from a series of classical villas in the centre of the town to their new headquarters designed by MVRDV in a park-like setting. The staff of 300 are organised into programme producing teams which have considerable autonomy in a building of 10,000m2.

As part of the move to the new office the structure of VPro was re-organised from media groupings (TV, radio and production of a subscriber's guide) to clusters based on content (art/culture, people/society, science/technology). This was partly possible due to the more fluid relationships between the parts of the organisation engendered by an infrastructure of shared electronic information.
Villa V-Pro differs radically from the standard narrow plan cellular Dutch office building and is possibly the deepest office buiding in the Netherlands. There are no corridors but large folding floorplates on which services, circulation, desks and other objects are gathered; a constellation plan of multiple points of focus with no discernable hierarchy. The intention of the architects was to replicate the sense of identity found in each of the villas within the larger representative and social space of the whole organisation. The solution to bringing light into the interior was not an atrium or roof lights but courtyards and appended rooms cut away from the main building volume.

"A ‘precision bombardment’ of snake like holes makes it possible to combine light and air with views of the surroundings … the result is a literal Bürolandschaft where difference between outside and inside blurs."

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