This villa is located in plot #34 of the ORDOS project.
Architects: Oyler Wu Collaborative
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Project Team: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Fayez Ahbad, Phillip Cameron, Jian Huang, Huy Le
Consulting Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
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
This proposal for a 1000 square meter villa in Inner Mongolia, China is part of a development of 100 villas to be designed by 100 architects from 27 different countries. The project is coordinated by Ai Wei Wei of FAKE Design, Beijing.
Our proposal strives to create a symbiotic relationship between the landscape and the building as well as the formation of a series of spatial chasms between major programmatic blocks. In developing the spaces, the proposal begins with the simultaneous desire to minimize the overall above ground massing of the building while still providing the underground spaces with immediate access to light and air. In pursuit of that objective, we have placed approximately a third of the program below grade. In most cases, however, the excavated area is offset from the building in such a way as to reduce the presence of the building mass on the site without the experiential disadvantages of occupying underground spaces. In effect, most all of the programmatic elements underground can operate as above ground spaces with regard to outdoor access, light, and air. This placement of spaces underground is also beneficial in providing constant protection from the prevailing winds. Access to the underground area is provided by two major ramps extending from the entry point of the site. The first ramp leads to the garage for vehicular access, with the second, smaller ramp leading to the recreation area in the basement.
The overall building diagram is based on the development of two “U” shaped building elements, with one corresponding to the public and the other to the private functions of the program. The “U” shapes are then overlaid in an interlocking orientation to create deep, geometric light wells that extend into the overall mass of the building. These light wells are conceived of as the key architectural experience of the house, serving as a spatial and experiential link between programmed spaces and the landscape which they extend from. The geometric faceting of the house serves this idea by creating a material and formal continuity that operates in both plan and section.
Cool! Can I bring my skateboard? ;-P
Wow it looks like a Terroir project !!!
http://www.terroir.com.au/
what will the neighbours think?
ORDOS
Obligation
Reinvents
Disneyland
On
Suburbia
this is awful, yet more architectural follies built into this terrible masterplan. Utterly pointless.
Composition is good. I hope this structure is not build in tropical moist climatic zone or else would require submersible pumps to remove accumulated water.
i dont know what to say about this..
sincerely…….don’t like it at all
make me think about 扎哈哈迪德
¿No context is context in itself? the zombie paradox
Although is common knowledge that you can propose as an architecture strategy the opposite in a conceptual quest for difference, in the case of great urban development projects such as the Ordos project in inner Mongolia the no context strategy as means of achieving contextual ity doesn’t quite work. Since I reason difference has a proper scale to function. Having a no context strategy in this case eludes the main question, which is how to have a better collective architecture response to the client. By the way a client who has its own spatial, cultural, economic, social and historic context. Building 100 and plus introspective objects makes everything boring. It would be infinitely better to have them interact. In any case, the good thing for us, is that if they build first some of them and afterwards the rest (I think there are two phases to the project) it would create a context (a forest) of introspective objects in which the reaming architects could decide whether to do the same or start establishing spatial relationships, thus creating quality context and not only accidental context.
Indeed it´s reminds me of the zombie’s paradox: the living dead, a concept which’s definition is contradictory in nature, no context being a context in its self is nonetheless sick in nature, is what architecture should not do and or urbanism not encourage.
I don’t think these architects know anything about flashing.
Mr Griffin, i’m not quite sure how to say this… Kim Bassinger, Baysinger…