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ORDOS 100 #14: Encore Heureux + G Studio

Jan 2009

By Amber P — Filed under: Houses , Selected , Brick, China, Encore Heureux, G Studio, Masonry, Ordos 100

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.

: plan 01

: plan 02

: plan 03

: section AA

: section CC

: brick detail

19 comments »

Contemporary Art says:

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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# January 29, 2009 at 15:57

roadkill says:

love the ‘brick detail’, must be the first time i came across brick dimensions in swastika like formation

# January 29, 2009 at 18:57

FERNANDO DÍEZ says:

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

# January 30, 2009 at 04:41

Jan Nubel says:

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…

# January 30, 2009 at 04:49

FERNANDO DÍEZ says:

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

# January 30, 2009 at 04:56

DM_A says:

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).

# January 30, 2009 at 05:29

FERNANDO DÍEZ says:

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!

# January 30, 2009 at 06:22

Jan Nubel says:

I STO IN PELTAR ON JESNAVEL

# January 30, 2009 at 08:58

Mário Gonzaga says:

finally a project to stair!

# January 30, 2009 at 09:49

amelie says:

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.

# January 30, 2009 at 11:13

Rokas says:

Agree with fernando diez-how anyone can work withouth a situation?:?

# January 30, 2009 at 14:00

ElEmilior says:

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.

# January 30, 2009 at 17:14

Rokas says:

To ElMilior-wr’d look with with plasure-just give us a link :D

# January 30, 2009 at 18:18

mil says:

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.

# January 31, 2009 at 00:14

ElEmilior says:

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

# January 31, 2009 at 00:22

Nicolas Bet says: