ORDOS 100 #6: Rocker-Lange

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Houses , ,
 

This villa is located in plot #80 of the ORDOS project.

Architects: Rocker-Lange
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Project leaders: Ingeborg M. Rocker & Christian J. Lange
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm

The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part of the Ordos 100 project and discusses the relationship and fusion of interior and exterior space.  Rocker – Lange calls for an architecture of milieu – that an architecture of the circumstances and conditions by which it is surrounded.  An “Architecture of Milieu” no longer strictly distinguishes between its inside and outside – it rather considers itself as always at once on multiple scales inside and outside, as architecture and environment.  Consequently architecture and its environment are thought of not only as “inside” and “outside” of one another, but as zones of possible relationships, in which “inside” and “outside” vary and shift to accommodate changing seasons and usage patterns.

The “Architecture of Milieu” is an architecture of situation rather than site: An indefinitely expandable and differentiable ribbon serves as the continuous organizational strategy, inscribing zones of different degrees of interior and exterior space vanishing the separation between them. Especially in the widely varying Mongolian climate, seasonal usages of living areas may change dramatically between the cold winters and warm summers; by creating an architecture which is interwoven with its surroundings, we allow the climate to work with the inhabitants, rather than against them.

20 Comments to “ORDOS 100 #6: Rocker-Lange” »

the taste of architecture reported by AD is getting worse…

Seb says:

YS I think the idea of AD is to report every house of the ORDOS100 project, so we can evaluate the complete project…

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carlo says:

agree with Sed, AD is about architecture, all.

Pieter says:

Not my cup of tea aswell. Actually, this is the worst of all Ordos 100-projects I’ve seen so far.

YS,

As Seb said, we are presenting all the ORDOS 100 projects, so you can have an opinion by seeing the whole picture, not just a biased selection.

fino says:

I think the form is striking, but where is the context? This project has to be responding to something. Hm……seems like a good conceptual start, but only that.

that is all

Pleasant, but not mind-blowing.

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i agrre whith fino, is like good conceptual start, but only that……
saludos

How do they get there 3D models looking soooo good!!

hmmm…they’ve got a killer name at least.

xing says:

another universal design.

holz says:

so, um, are they going to pay herzog & de meuron for blatantly lifting the facade of the SBB stellwerk?

oh wait, they’re “paying homage”

biboarchitect says:

the plans look good, but the elevations are the worst! & fine.. i dont think any of Ordos’ refers to a context..

tokyoaddict says:

to fino about the context, I think there is no context because architects in Ordos 100 have no information about their neighboors (or just a few). But I agree that it’s too bad to see this kind of situation where the client is making a no-context area in order to let the architect play (like the HHF house …), that seems to be normal in china, dubai, korea …

and the client say to the architect : please show my money.

scarpasez says:

Does it not rain there? That rooftop stairwell is begging to become a wonderfully leaky river in a downpour.

gerson says:

ordus, a organuzed group of animals’ like the mongolian ordes that went conquering europe and now’ the western “arquitetos” are coming back’ and with a lot of bad taste, unknowledge of the time and place, building this less architecture.
this was not a competition but participants were choosen by their “academic” ideology
it seems that no one have ever been there’ known about the mogols and their heritage and almost no one live in an house designed by themselves

Thomas says:

Unnecessary form making… “Let’s try and outdo the one next door” architecture…

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