Comments on: ORDOS 100 #39: OBRA Architects

By: X

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:00:26 +0000

i don’t know.but the picture pleased me

By: fb

fb — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:32:08 +0000

This is what happens when architects no longer has a grasp of fine art. Please; learn to paint before learning to build.

By: MovingCities

MovingCities — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:51:56 +0000

Some background, and extracts from an interview with OBRA, can be found in following review:

OBRA at work in China (February 2009)
http://movingcities.org/bertdemuynck/on-china/obra-at-work-in-china/

Comparing the layout and design of the villa with a starfish, OBRA’s Portuguese experience melds with the Chinese concept of the courtyard: “The design is based on the relationship between solid and void. By working with the void of the courtyard, we spread the architecture out and turned it back on itself to establish interdependency. From an ancient Chinese painting, we extracted a compositional method, leading to a design where one can‘t look out of the window of the house without seeing another part of the house. We went through a lot of exercises so as to make sure the house was not throwing shadow on itself.”

By: Carlo

Carlo — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:59:55 +0000

Oh my god, the table’ s shape follows the rounded walls…pretty bad!
the rounded tubes do not add to the complexity of the space.
the rather functional stairs collide with the organic and dynamic forms of the walls.

what were they thinking…

;-)
carlo

By: José

José — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:57:09 +0000

To Madoff:I Agree with you, but architecture must persuad us to believe in itself.And this building doesn´t.

By: Bernie Madoff

Bernie Madoff — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:52:12 +0000

Look everybody. I think your critique is being extremely unsophisticated. I don’t pretend everybody to like this project. Personally, I don’t. But I already have learned that there isn’t necessarily a correlation between what I like and what should be considered to posses some merit. And precisely in that sense, I believe that the merit of Obra’s work lies in being able to abstract itself from the present mainstream architectural culture that pervades and determines most of what is being design nowadays in the world.

By: josep

josep — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:22:10 +0000

I think Obra is a mistery to me, I’m a big fan of PS1 summer competition but after going to check Obra’s winner installation i kept thinking this guys must had a good connection with “someone” at PS1 for two fellows with Steven Holl as pedigree/background they should do much better work, I’m frankly surprise that H&M thought they were capable of delivering interesting architecture…is all a big puzzle for me!

By: José

José — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:45:33 +0000

Ordos = Lost oportunity for a international competition

By: DM_A

DM_A — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:53:44 +0000

So…ORDOS is a rendering competition, isn’t it?

By: JasonW

JasonW — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:23:02 +0000

very poor.