Ordos 100 Villa —
Inner Mongolia, China

Ordos 100 Villa —
Inner Mongolia, China

The goal of the project is to Develop 100 hundred villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei’s studio in Beijing, has developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land and will curate the project, while Herzog and de Meuron have selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe. Each architect is responsible for a 1000 square meter Villa.
The first question the program poses is what makes a villa different from a house; in other words, how can the scale of this project affect its structure and organization.
Location
Ordos, Inner Mongolia
Year
2008
Herzog & de Meuron - Tristan Dieguez, Axel Fridman
Leonardo Buffa, Maria Carranza, Daniel Natale, Julia Nowodworrski, Marcelo Savarro, Jazmin Zang
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A house has one space that is larger than all the other ones, the living room, where all users meet – parents and their children, the inhabitants of the house and their visitors. This is a privileged space, generally offered the best views, lighting conditions and connections to the other rooms. This clear hierarchical structure doesn’t apply to a villa as the living room is no longer the only space where different users can meet. Lounge areas, living areas and exercise areas form a network of “public” spaces that interact with the bedrooms in a far more complex way, allowing for multiple relations and connections. The project seeks to provide different spatial conditions for this variety of public areas: underground spaces in close contact with the ground and protected from views from the neighbors; vertical spaces with views to the sky; elevated areas that look out to the nearby park and its designed vegetation. By connecting these underground, vertical and elevated spaces, a loop is generated that defines a continuous movement between the public areas of the house, while allowing for views across the site and through the house for neighbors and for visitors to the creative and industrial park. This public loop sits on a vertical tower of bedrooms on one of its ends, and stretches to house the service areas on the other one. It’s formed by a continuous tubular concrete structure, with openings on its sides, faceted and folded to maximize its resistance without increasing its section.

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