Villa-Villa / Ordos 100

Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia
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Architects
nARCHITECTS
Location
Ordos, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia
Year
2009
Client

Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Lltd

Area
1,000m2 (10,000sf

Sustainability
Smaller conditioned/heated “inner” house within larger “outer” house

nARCHITECTS Team
Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang (Principals); Alice Wong (Project Manager) Dominique Gonfard, Hubert Pelletier, Adam Vana

Collaborators
MEP: Arup NY; Structure Arup NY

Curators
Ai Wei Wei/ FAKE Design + Herzog & De Meuron (architect selection)

This 10,000 sq. ft. villa is part of the Ordos 100 project, in which 100 international architects are each designing a villa in a new city center in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Conceived as a house within a house, Villa-Villa combines two distinct spatial and thermal conditions. The Inner House is designed as a compact, essential house, containing 60% of the project’s total volume and 75% of its area. The Outer House provides a protective enclosure, and a unique series of interconnected, voluminous, sky-lit spaces. This layering responds to the extreme swings of the Ordos desert climate with efficiencies in climatic and material strategies. At the same time, Villa-Villa provides its inhabitants with a variety of modes of living, as they occupy a house that expands and contracts according to the seasons.

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