该别墅位于ORDOS 100国际建筑师项目中的74号地块。

Architects: JDS Architects

Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

Design year: 2008

Construction year: 2009

Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China

Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China

Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

A house of 1000 sqm can almost be populated rather than inhabited to the least it can entertain quite a party! We have designed a house around the principle of big brother，a place where one can watch and be watched. A house where the circulation is gathered into an atrium of hedonistic leisure and excess, an unavoidable place of pleasure control, that distributes its visitors and party goers in the confines of protected rooms. Each room flanked on this panopticon atrium is equipped of a private terrace, or dune, that continues the idea of the original desert over the house. Similarly the desert is trapped inside the atrium to form an oasis of sand.

Climatically the house functions like an igloo: the outer rooms act as a layer of extra protection to the indoor atrium space. The larger space allows for natural ventilation both of itself and of each individual room.

The programmatic layout allows for maximum publicity on the 2 primary levels while the top floor is dedicated to the master bedroom and attendance, turning it almost into an apartment within the house.

site diagram

interior diagram

mound diagram

neighbors diagram

neighbors views diagram

programmatic boxes diagram

views from the house diagram