ORDOS 100 #29: Lyn Rice Architects

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This villa is located in plot #07 of the ORDOS project.

Architects: Lyn Rice Architects
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia,
Architects in Charge: , principal, with Astrid Lipka, associate principal
Project Architect: Ivan Chabra
Project Designer: Benjamin Cadena
Design Team: Karl-Erik Larson, Steven Chen, Daria Supp
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009-2010
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

LRA is one of a handful of architects from the United States selected by Herzon&DeMeuron to design a 10,000sf villa in China’s Inner Mongolia province as part of acclaimed artist, Ai Weiwei’s 100 Ordos Master Plan. Situated on an arid grassland site, LRA’s Villa 007 will be one of 100 villas designed by 100 invited international architects and organized around a new Ordos cultural center which includes an adjacent museum and artist housing.

landscape diagrams

Situated on a corner site on the south side of the Ordos 100 development, Villa 007 draws the landscape and light deep into its interior. A traditional three-bay grid running normal to the odd-angled west façade organizes three landscape courtyards that draw the surrounding site into the living areas. Interior programmatic and structural zones are organized by these gardens and by a secondary grid running normal to the remaining facades. The addition/internalization of exterior space expands the program horizontally and creates the low building profile.

Villa 007 challenges the normative practice of consolidating residential programs into separate service, living and sleeping blocks. LRA distributed living spaces on each level, interspersing them with sleeping areas and service areas, and encouraging residents and guests to seek a broader range of experiences within the home. In an unconscious act of domestic migration, the home-owner will meander from space to space, drawn by the scale and material character of specific living spaces that resonate with their mood, as well as with the time of day and time of year. Living Level 1 is an active living environment of pool/exercise zones coupled with a lounge, hot pool and sauna. Living Level 2 distributes large entertaining zones away from the more intimate living, study, and dining areas with sleeping rooms mixed between. Living Level 3 is the owner’s bedroom suite with private lounge adjacent to an exterior rooftop terrace.

 
 
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jjjetplane says:

pretty bad.

 
# March 23, 2009 at 14:14
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speedfreak says:

The DB5 is dishonored by that.

 
# March 23, 2009 at 14:24
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oltmann says:

???!!!

 
# March 23, 2009 at 15:35
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Ordos = Mc Tecture…

 
# March 23, 2009 at 16:10
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odris says:

just simple…

 
# March 23, 2009 at 16:48
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s&S says:

oooooooooh no

 
# March 23, 2009 at 20:02
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Opium says:

“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”

 
# March 23, 2009 at 20:08
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Partick Bateman says:

this makes me angry.

cheap, tacky looking visualisations that prop up a rubbish design in a suburban masterplan designed as an architectural exhibition in mongolia.

i hate everything about this project.

 
# March 24, 2009 at 03:43
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Lulu says:

hahaha, there’s bobonia in the visualisation. I wonder if the author knows anything about persnal rights and privacy? Or the author is bobonia itself, hahaha. anyway, waaack!

 
# March 24, 2009 at 08:20
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Mac says:

Inner Mongolia is known for the many vintage cars driving around…

Architecture is not impressive, at all!

 
# March 25, 2009 at 03:03
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8:11 AM Jan 31st

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