ORDOS 100 #7: MOS Architects
This villa is located in plot #06 of the ORDOS project.
Architects: MOS – Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Design team: Lasha Brown, James Tate, Lorenzo Marasso, Heather Bizon,
Shu- Chang, Vivian Chin (translation)
Structural Engineering: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger- Paul Kassabian
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
Images: MOS
We based our proposal upon a traditional Chinese courtyard house typology. Each room and function is housed within an individual building volume, which are connected at the corners to remove the need for hallways and excessive circulation space.
The relationship of the house to the sun is critical. In a climate such as Ordos’ which experiences hot summers and cold winters, it is the architectural form which integrates the effects of the sun’s light and heat with the comfort of the occupied spaces. The house controls heat and light through two primary aspects: window placement and the solar chimney.
In the wintertime when the sun is lower and the need for internal heat greater, the windows and skylights, oriented towards the south, west and east, allow sunlight to enter. Passive heating is achieved as the masonry walls and floors absorb the accompanying solar radiation which then is released to heat the spaces.
In the summer, when the sun is higher and thetemperatures greater, it is more important to keep the occupied spaces cool. The deep window sills help to shade the interior spaces from the higher summer sun while still allowing in ambient light. Because heat rises, the solar chimney acts to draw hot air up and away from the occupied spaces, and the hot air is further removed through the operable skylights. Lower, cooler air is then drawn into the space at the occupancy level, further helping to cool the rooms. Furthermore, the masonry walls and floors slow and decrease the transmission of solar radiation into the interior spaces.
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- site plan
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- basement plan
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- ground floor plan
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- second floor plan
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- roof plan
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- west elevation
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- east elevation
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- north elevation
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- south elevation
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- entry courtyard elevation
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- section 01
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- solar chimney diagram
A way to put highheels on passive design, eh? While I will commend the passive techniques, I appreciate subtlety about it. “I am passive! Look at me!” No one likes a goodygoody showoff. Otherwise, I think the forms are rather provative, and pretty appropriate to be in Mongolia. Seems like there would not be such a problem of assimilation to this. Interesting project.
that is all.
how big is ordos100 it seems like every time they sneeze a house comes out
LV
There are 100 houses on the ORDOS 100 project. We hope to feature them all here.
what a waste of time… maybe the financial crisis will do us all some good!
this is a good try. MOS did a nice work in terms of vernacular energy saving propsal.
The basis of passive solar architecture are clearly not understood by the authors of this project.
Orientation, insulation, even the chimneys are going against the basic principles of solar architecture.
Bad bad bad. All image and no content.
The design is very intriguing. They managed to take an existing theory, Chimney effect, and break it down to a simplistic almost literal design. What makes this design so interesting is the composition of these “chimneys”. The only bad part aside from graphics is the elements. Unless you plan on allowing all elements to be present inside your house much like the pantheon, you will then have to design a fluke of some sort.
even though the interior spaces look interesting, and the passive strategy is a good effort, definitively, the less interesting proposal from the ordos experiment, at least from the ones shown in arch daily.
this looks like a house designed for the CONEHEADS
100 projects? how many more are we to endure? show us some real architecture!
@sjcr
Passive strategy? What passive strategy? I’m curious to hear.
ordos 100 #7 = casa parr
@BimBamBoum
Why isn’t there a passive strategy, explain us more please..
or give a link
Some satire on this project and its similarities with PS1 (talk about passive design…)
http://klaustoon.wordpress.com/
I agree about the no passive pinciple that inspire this deisgn proposal….just another cliche architecture…buy the last number of croquis…get inspire about one project…design yours and then add some “sustainable” explanations and here it comes…..
The roof design is fun, but the base section (windows and exteior walls) does not support the roof design. It would have been nice to relate the surrounding ground conditions to the roof design.
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