Comments on: ORDOS 100 #26: FRENTE

By: Julien Béneyt

Julien Béneyt — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:03:33 +0000

Poetic. http://t.co/X2jJslZ #architecture

By: Cesar Gomez

Cesar Gomez — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:53:18 +0000

FRENTE #ArchDaily http://t.co/JoaXKQX …casa en un bosque artificial ……….#arquitectura

By: .c.i.c.i.s.

.c.i.c.i.s. — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:02:18 +0000

ada ada aja arsitek -_- http://www.archdaily.com/16355/ordos-100-26-frente/

By: Bakaity Bea

Bakaity Bea — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:05:31 +0000

Reading: "ORDOS 100 #26: FRENTE | ArchDaily"( http://twitthis.com/82aepx )

By: Jonathan E.A.I.

Jonathan E.A.I. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:24:18 +0000

Wanna see a preview of my #tesis?? http://bit.ly/3XhcHl [ One hour for find this fuckin project.. #epicfail]

By: The Ordos Project – Living Underground « Elevate

The Ordos Project – Living Underground « Elevate — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:26:33 +0000

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Living Underground in Style | Bookmarks — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:05:11 +0000

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By: dejivrur

dejivrur — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:32:03 +0000

why can’t it be more… socialistic… this masterpiece here is far far beyond introvert state… alienating itself beyond the environtment around….

By: precious

precious — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:17:30 +0000

aside from the way that the extra columns are used as a prop to disguise, its a great project. although the architect argues that it achieves a blurring of the support columns, which to his credit it does, i think it currently is a distraction without function, but Ozzie’s got a great suggestion.

the design plays a fantastic rhetorical gesture (intended or not by the architect) on the traditional Chinese courtyard house. it could use a little vegetation though as it’s a bit stark.

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:13:02 +0000

I agree, the columns are poetic. The house wants to be one of those jewels in a forest… the glass box forest tree house archi-type, except it’s not I a forest.

I also agree that I struggle to accept the columns as they perform NO function, they are purely poetic, and truly great architectural expressions are is both poetic and pragmatic, it’s finding that balance that makes architecture so complex.

Solution: put one of those elegant 3 blade wind props on top of each column, so they generate power for the site ;-)

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By: AlessandroTomassetti

AlessandroTomassetti — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:02 +0000

Plot #35 of China’s Ordos project #architecture http://bit.ly/iXVy

By: Ponzie

Ponzie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:29:04 +0000

Haha, both and!

By: dom

dom — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:10:22 +0000

I think everyone is right. It is beautiful and absurd, new and redundant, a solution and a problem.
And we are all discussing it, and that justifies it for me.
No, I could definitely not live there, but I would love to visit, and I am glad to have seen it.
It can only be worthless if we don’t learn from it.

By: sullka

sullka — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:24:32 +0000

lol at some comments…..hehehe

Mixed feelings about this one, as it is right now I agree is somehow ridiculous.

I think that the forest-columns-camouflage idea is lost with that amount of columns, now, if they add three times more columns, it will begin to take shape.

See Patxi Mangad’s Pabellon de España for the Zaragoza expo:
http://www.arqchile.cl/pabellon_espana.htm

By: dpd

dpd — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:02:32 +0000

perfect visual effect. The eye didn’t understand the construction and create the effect of levitation. Maybe it’s not the best idea for living house (threw the house windows it’s better to see trees, not columns :) ) but for public building perfect idea

By: Boppie

Boppie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:35:50 +0000

Haha. Reviewing my own comment, I need to say I probably don’t agree with it myself and should have been less aggressive.
The columns are essential to the project, in my believe. Without these extra columns the concept would have been way less strong. By adding the extra columns the architect suggests there are no columns at all.
The problem with this Ordos project as a whole is the lack of context. I agree that context should always be an issue, but within this collection of icons the context could be a less important factor.
I find the Ordos project a disturbingly arrogant project, made for publicity. In my believe the project had more potential in several ways. But maybe I’m to much an idealist.