Architects: Encore Hereux + G Studio
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
French architects Encore Heureux & G Studio didn’t send a text for their Ordos villa, but the renderings are quite expressive. Judge for yourself.
It looks a bit clunky to me, but I guess it will fit in with the mish-mash of everything that’s going to be built around it.
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http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com
love the ‘brick detail’, must be the first time i came across brick dimensions in swastika like formation
EMPIEZO A PENSAR SI DEBIERA LLAMARSE “ÑORDOS 100″
POR LO HETEROGENEO E INSULSO DE LAS PROPUESTAS. SE ESTA INTENTANDO REALIZAR UNA BANDEJA DE REPOSTERIA DE LA MAS FINA ARQUITECTURA, PERO SE PUEDE DAR EL CASO DE MEZCLAR TANTOS SABORES QUE EL RESULTADO NOS RESULTE TOXICO!!!
SALUD A TODOS
NICE POJECT!
I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH MR. DIEZ
THIS IS A REFERENCE FOR WHAT MUST BE DONE IN EVERY FUTURE CITY!
ONLY CLOSE MINDS REFUSE THE STRENGHT OF THOSE WORKS
SES COPES AVANS O DESPRES D’ANTONIA FONT?
JA PODRIES HAVER DUÏT ES ROUTER…
SORRY JAN
IM NOT AGREE WITH U. ENERGY TOTALLY DESAPROFITADA. ARCHITECTURE IN NOT JUST PLAYING CURIOSILY WITH MATERIALS.
LETS RETHINK WHAT AND FOR WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE!
HEALTH FOR EVERYBODY
F10
Well…its not a matter of closed minds… I agree with Fernando Díez when he says that this can end being like a big mixture of such different things that will look like a big Expo, were every country gives its best, but the overall feeling is quite disappointing, and even ugly.
There should be a clear planning that ensures the entity of such a big intervention. And only then, all these little personal architectures can make sense.
And it’s obvious that I don’t like them all, but not as much as to say they’re all “ñordos” (though I’ve laughed a lot with the word).
I MEAN THAT I ONLY MISS A LITTLE BIT OF ANCHORAGE, THAT WORD USED BY MR STEVEN HALL, IN ORDER TO SAY THAT THE LAND IS A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE PROJECT. AN EASY WAY TO WORK IS DO IT WITH A MODEL, WITHOUT TAKE CARE ABOUT THE PLACE.YOU MAKE AN OBJECT AND YOU SOW IT. ITS NOT MY WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE ARCHITECTURE. CALL ME ME NOSTALGIG OF REGIONALISM, IF U WANT!
I STO IN PELTAR ON JESNAVEL
finally a project to stair!
Fortress for snipers (chineese) against the mogolian culture / For Occupied Territories in hostile Climate and strange horse riders / where architecture is used as a bricks-bunker without ”Oblique Function” / Is it the right target for Ordos colonisation ! / or just a ”loose to loose” joke.
Agree with fernando diez-how anyone can work withouth a situation?:?
I agree with Fernado Diez. We have to try not to be original but more focus in looking for contextualized solutions. I recomended to take a look on the work of Eduardo Sacriste, an argentinian architect of the 50.
To ElMilior-wr’d look with with plasure-just give us a link :D
ORDOS is a decadent proyect……..we have to think in the real meaning of architecture, a good architect is not a star is a man or woman that think in time with the context and real needs in order to be optimistic, not in temporary trends. Ordos can be a laboratory of possibilities not about how fancy can we live.
A shiny approach to Eduardo Sacriste
He built in Marrakesh, Cuba, and most at all in Tucuman, Argentine.
http://1en100.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
For me ORDOS 100 is just another project of real estate. Just that.
The standard US housing blocks are McMansions; This is McMarketecture. Big, big, big! Yikes. ORDOS is proving to be a sort of unhinged land of ego.
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it does look a bit chunky….and i think the expression of the facade looks quite defensive rather than welcoming….
Why does this guy uses this brick system when it has no structural advantage to the other systems, is could be for ventilation and light, but it doesn’t work that way. Apparently, this syestem was used to create a reference to some sort of arab architecture, but the strage thing in it, is the fact that they forced an idea of an old arab building, half demolished, to create an idea of a recuperation with a modernist architecture. But in the end, it looks more like some kind of museum than a house – or at least, it doesn’t seem to give the ambient of a house. It’s not that the idea of an internal patio with the rooms facing it isn’t evident. It’s just that it doens’t work as it could. Even more because a reference is made, but not in a respectable way. It’s just that there’s no real know how of arab architecture.
thermal mass my friend
what a beautiful thing