This villa is located in plot #70 of the ORDOS project.
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
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 aprox
I propose a primordial place to live before a notional ‘house’ became a ‘house;’ when it was uncongealed to be all at once a house, a city, a garden, a forest, a prairie, the natural and the artificial. It is analogous to the ruins of ancient cities, to the natural landscapes, to the network of neural activities in a stimulated mind, and to the structure of the Universe.
Not an Object, but a Field of Relationships
A house is not an object.
A house is the totality of frequencies registered as a place of living before differentiating into a house, a city, a garden, a forest, and a prairie.
The masterplan, a collection of demarcated plots and residential volumes, was reinterpreted as a nebulous field of interrelationships similar to a weather chart. Instead of “one object per one plot,” various spatial gradations begin to emerge within the plot. Surrounding contexts and complexities of their reciprocal influence are given a form. I speculate a condition in between architecture and landscape, exteriority and interiority.
Telescopic Vessel by Walls of Voids
To be a house and to be a garden, to be open and to be closed, interiorized exterior, exteriorized interior, continuity and discontinuity, domesticity and urbanity. To be natural and to be artificial; to produce a place that incorporates these discrepant antinomies, I propose a telescopic vessel by walls of voids.
Throughout the plot, the walls are positioned like a spiral. However, these simultaneously are not walls. These are walls of voids with countless openings. Space fluctuates with the openings’ sizes, forming spaces that manifest the gradations within the plot envisioned as a field of relationships.
Between those walls, various rooms and gardens intermingle as they fuse into one another. The feeling of a large expanse coupled with the feel of a comfortable shelter, results in a scale that transforms with use and creates rich depths by multiplicity of inside and outside. This also generates diverse relationships with the surrounding environ as it is simultaneously opened and closed.
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- model
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- situation plan
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- first floor plan
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- second floor plan
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- sections + elevation
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beautiful execution of his stance on architecture however I question its functionality with extreme weather conditions. Would like to see less conceptual drawings and some more detail drawings to see if these spaces act like ‘air gaps’ for insulation or that they are truely open
robin hood’s houses
A gorgeous structure! This looks incredibly beautiful. What will the roofing be made out of? More details would definitely be interesting. But this is very tantalizing.
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What roof???
There´s no roof!
Where is the house???
No…just Kidding.
I like very much the idea and the proportions of the proyect…the walls look monumental!
to think and work out of box, focusing on its relationship, the soul and so-called space senseness is the typical Japanese architecture thinking. However,for this extreme and specific location, it is just an different offer. not a well-fit idea, regardless to say its habitation comfort. In addition, this is a commerical compelx and need to be sold eventually, i hope the architect kept this in his/her mind.
this project really doesnt seem to have any cohesion. the visuals although good, do not show anything!? a bit more research would have helped… how do the spaces interact… need more drawings
If you would have looked closely…..you would have seen what this project means. Sou Fujimoto is a great architect, and the concept of this house in incredible, it brings the outside spirit and light to the interior. And the room, and dining, and so on, are very well thought. So, you should think again before sayin that this house doesn’t have any cogesion… :)
cohesion*, sorry
F A N T A S T I C ! ! !
Kibaszott jo!
This is very interesting as a truly experimental type of house but the presentation makes it difficult to visualise how it would actually work in practice, or how it would feel to be in those spaces – more images would be helpful..
Agreed, its difficult to see the different relations at materialization. At first glance it reminds me of the `les cols` pavilions of RCR architects.
I like the “robin hood” air to this project. I would also like to see some details on the way it will be constructed. Generally the concept about space is well thought. I wonder how circulation would work.
Completely thoughtful.
my wife would need a gps to find my lost son!
quit on ORDOS please.
Sou Fujimoto produces some of the most innovative architecture today. we’ll see a lot of him soon
I’m a self aware comment.
Sou Fucking Fabulous! I totally agree that the material shown is pretty thin, but didn’t they have only 100 days on these projects? I can’t wait to see this universe materialise.
Reminds me of both House N and the Center for mentally disturbed children.
Beautiful, mindful, the best project for Ordos.
Awesome.
Really Cool – Thank you for this. A glass roof would be awesome.
Sou Fujimoto is the best young architect working today.
Seriously, check out his work.
that´s a BIT exaggerated
OH MY GOLD!
poetic mindful project, very interesting.
and a good client.
I like his idea! I went to the city where these projects are,it’s a good way to make this walls to react bad situation.
I think it will be very nice if have a taller tower so can see faraway.
Its like… labyrinth… …I love it!
Nice project, however looks like House N taken too far, I mean its a house and needs at least some enclosed spaces, plus the site is in the dessert, can the beautiful qualities show on the model be ever realised? this is very questionable.
all he can do is planting trees
This project is an excellent example of an open structure, which addresses the concept of the house of a symbolic form.
Parallax Architecture Conference 2009
Bjarke Ingels “How the f*** did you convince your client to build something like that?”
Sou Fujimoto “………… My client is my wife’s mother……..”
Bjarke Ingels “………”
wouldn’t it be funny for this project which would indeed “replicate the structure of the Universe” too look completely ridiculous in a couple of years – like the japanese deconstructivists or something….
The 3d image and 2d plan drawing do not match but I think the plan drawing looks like more real project. And if it does, I think it will be quite cool, if I were in the middle of linear walls, reading and sleeping. but it seems to be little bit far from common houses.