This villa is located in plot #74 of the ORDOS project.
Architects: JDS Architects
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
A house of 1000 sqm can almost be populated rather than inhabited to the least it can entertain quite a party! We have designed a house around the principle of big brother，a place where one can watch and be watched. A house where the circulation is gathered into an atrium of hedonistic leisure and excess, an unavoidable place of pleasure control, that distributes its visitors and party goers in the confines of protected rooms. Each room flanked on this panopticon atrium is equipped of a private terrace, or dune, that continues the idea of the original desert over the house. Similarly the desert is trapped inside the atrium to form an oasis of sand.
Climatically the house functions like an igloo: the outer rooms act as a layer of extra protection to the indoor atrium space. The larger space allows for natural ventilation both of itself and of each individual room.
The programmatic layout allows for maximum publicity on the 2 primary levels while the top floor is dedicated to the master bedroom and attendance, turning it almost into an apartment within the house.
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- site diagram
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- interior diagram
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- mound diagram
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- neighbors diagram
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- neighbors views diagram
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- programmatic boxes diagram
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- views from the house diagram
that third rendering looks like it’s inside a mall with a bunch of escalators.
There was a similar concept for a modular costal resort on this site not too long ago.
This has to be the most… wait let tme be diplomatic about this… the most hideous thing ever to have been posted on this site. OMFG!!!
Believe it or not their website is even less functional. (pukes in mouth)
these guys are a bunch of comedians… but i hope they build it so all the fan base feels the cruel embarrassment…. darn joke
“site diagram – ?”
“pleasure control”
(this just made my day)
I actually think they create a quite interesting interior space with a very simple principal. Not bad at all, compared to some of the other ORDOS designs…
wow, I’d be ashamed to have that built.
ORDOS is setting architecture back years….*sigh*
Just the sun glare from the mirrored exterior cladding or “skin” (to be hip), would kill all yak in central asia! In fact it would melt all us white folks or transport those in proximity to distant planets.
It seems to be a Shoppingmall. The question about the concept……???
“programmatic boxes diagram”.. that’s hilarious
That is two bag ugly. You’d need to put a bag over your own head in case the bag you’d put over the building to obscure it ripped and blew off.
I have seen this published a few times and I think its great, really simple concept for an expresive volume in a harsh cold climate that creates an interior that can be used in the winter. Also having been in monglia and china I think alot of the other Architects in Ordos who rely on details will be upset when their projects are built, its a really bad provincial building standard. It seems these guys built that into their ideas when they designed this, even if built badly it should still look amazing
To all the Haters… where are your amazing designs? Nowhere? thought so…
c’mon.. they’ve understood that ordos is really about hedonism and designed the perfect enclosure for it.. a sense of humour they’ve got
oh hey and people can hate all they want – as if having or not having “amazing” (whatever that is) designs would somehow modify your entitlement to an opinion? is that what you’re saying?
Mongolia gets cold in winter, doesn’t it?