This is a villa project in Ordos Inner Mongolia. It's not part of the famous Ordos 100, but it's the same client. The concept and geometry is derived from the site conditions (views,wind,solar,land forms..etc..) combined with the local (non yurt) brick constructed homes that dot the landscape.
You don't get many opportunities to build a single family detached house in China. What they tend to build is dense urban residential towers. So there has not been much evolution of the single family detached home. We resisted the temptation to do an updated yurt which I believe will ultimately finds its design zenith when its framed by a mega mall courtyard. Instead we focused on the local farm house that is in fact more connected to traditional living while at the same time becoming extinct by the modernization that was blanketing the landscape.
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