Ordos Restaurant / Yazdani Studio
Yazdani Studio shared with us the Ordos Restaurant they are building in the Mongolian Desert. As I told you before on our interview with Mehrdad Yazdani, Yazdani Studio was one of the first practices working on the new city, with one villa finishing construction and also a Concert Hall and this restaurant (also nearing completion), public programs required by this huge development.
During the interview, Mehrdad told us about the importance of the central courtyard for passive cooling, required on this harsh climate. More details about the project after the break:
Sited adjacent to the Ordos Art Museum, the Ordos Concert Hall, and a boutique hotel, the Ordos Restaurant promises to become a crucial element in the fabric of the Kaokaoshina district of Ordos. The restaurant’s striking appearance – of a glass box floating effortlessly above a shaped landscape – owes its diaphanous presence to an innovative materials palette of high-tech glass that includes colored inner layers, dichromatic and translucent films, and ceramic fritting. Inside, this glass mélange tantalizes patrons with constant, subtle shifts of light – an appropriate visual complement to the restaurant’s menu, which encompasses three cuisines.
The 3,000 sm restaurant maintains its vital connection to the environment on several levels. Extensive solar analysis early in the design process established an optimal orientation for the transparent building, and a large green roof harbors an array of indigenous plants. In stark contrast to the restaurant’s modern architecture, the structural skeleton of a traditional Anhui house, purchased and restored for the project, stands at the heart of a central courtyard, provoking a lively visual dialogue and narrative for this exciting culinary destination.
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“outdoor” dining.
these places look like where my teacher used to send me sitting when i missbehaved at elementary school. :\
the inside plan though , which is the only simple and thoghtfull thing about the project, seems ok.
I was secretly hoping they would never build that Ordos thing… Another architectural mistake like suburbs to be studied in 1st year in 2050…
hahahaha… archdaily’s critics are AWESOME
there are always so many people with sarcastic language!
bravo!
not sure who’s being sarcastic… I believe it is the architect with such unexplainable complexity in the middle of nowhere…
With some of the villas, and the concert hall/hotel almost ready… it´s not the middle of nowhere anymore.
I love archdaily but loath the critics (not really critis), most of which seem so juvenile, negative, jealous and as armeyn says sarcastic. Ilbeit they’ve never built a thing that has been built but pass judgement with flippant comments like there’s no tomorrow. I must force myself to not read the comments section as it’s always a downer and ruins a otherwise wonderful experience, how does the editor put up with it?
David,
We are working on it ;)
Having your project published, in a magazine or over the internet, exposes you to critique. Truth is in comments like everywhere else mainly people who do not agree tend to speak up. Unless you disable comments, this is unavoidable.
To go back to Ordos, I’mgenerally against every architectural fair building projects from big architects next to each other, almost in the same time, which brings to a lack of cohesion and urban-ness. This partially explains why all the ordos renderings look like they are building in the middle of nowhere.
@David: when there is a ‘good’ concept, comments are positive. Look at Sou Fujimoto’s project.
I agree there are lots of fanatics writing by instinct about architecture but that´s part of the charming and success of AchDaily
and yes if you agree to put your work up to the public criticism good and bad should be accepted
I feel good projects get good reception even from those fanatics architectural students so why changing that?
In term of designs, aren’t we tired of cantilevered trusses yet?
best sketches EVER! omg, wonder what they used?? ahah