Comments on: ORDOS 100 #2: Luca Selva Architects

By: Durban

Durban — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:27:13 +0000

“”it’s a pointlessy complicated building. Of course it creates interesting spaces (which fascinates at first, and probably makes the building fun to walk through), but it really is over the top and doesn’t respond to any -given- chaos… it just creates confusion in a relatively simple place.”"
wow hm! you contradict yourself twice in one comment, thats impressive.

I think making walls in all sorts of directions to create dynamic views, spaces and paths is perfectly justified. Id love to explore this place and would enjoy living there.

BUT, the way they derived the plan from a photo is laughable. Eisenman did the same thing for cite de culture in santiago. He copied the old town map and pasted it onto his building for circulation. Im not convinced by that but at least he didnt try to justify it with ‘being contextual’

By: E

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:55:36 +0000

Hi all,

Personally, the interesting part is not how the form looks like, but rather, how was the form derived by.

Did it merely mapped out the contours of the terrain only? or was there more to it.

If it was really built, has consideration of each wall and where it visually looks towards been considered?

As there were no perspective of the space being shown, its hard to tell if the architect has touched on the above mentioned.

So there are alot of unanswered questions just on this posting alone, but they may already been touched on which I sincerely hoped each responsible architect would have done.

Lastly, if its really built, the height of each wall will determine the dynamism, though it may be “slanted here and there” it does not mean it is hard to live in the space as most presume just by looking at the overall layout. Rather, if you stand within the space, you may find that it could be quite interesting and infact, quite “wide” a space compared to the traditional cube rooms. So we need to really see the inside, being able to visualize standing in it will we then see the real beauty of it.

Overall, I feel that its a good attempt and good effort. Something was created, just that more needs to be shown.

By: HSXK

HSXK — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:31:22 +0000

I like it. I understand the meaning and significance of learning Architecture from it. It’s so interesting, the building, the world.

By: oranjuic

oranjuic — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:35:24 +0000

looks more like a study model of a 2nd year architecture student, not that it isn’t remotely interesting, but nothing to be wowed at. i dont even think the scale is correct.

By: chickmagnetstuff

chickmagnetstuff — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:48:02 +0000

now who would want to have something as complicated as that as a house design it looks like a map i don’t like it.

By: Amico

Amico — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:27:04 +0000

Seams to me like Escher’s drawings
http://www.ubm.br/ubm/imagens/cultura/ref19/escher01.jpg

or walking on the streets of Morocco.

By: hm

hm — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:01:39 +0000

I agree with whoever said it’s a pointlessy complicated building. Of course it creates interesting spaces (which fascinates at first, and probably makes the building fun to walk through), but it really is over the top and doesn’t respond to any -given- chaos… it just creates confusion in a relatively simple place.

By: chingy

chingy — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:20:19 +0000

i think its great as an artwork…but if its to build…is it necessary to waste money like this…rather then a more simple solution?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:09:44 +0000

Waoooo
I see this is a very interesting architecture discussion!
I read this looking for someone who has somethiong interesting (or not) about architecture, not about how good he/she was at school.

By: To "miss M"

To "miss M" — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:43:22 +0000

To Miss M the student

the girl who design the moon…….*loooooooooool* yes next time, design the moon……because she not gonna worry *lol*