Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos An

13:100
Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
An exhibition organized by the Architectural League of New York
October 11—November 26, 2008
From: FAKE Design [mailto:[email protected]]
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Subject: Invitation Ordos 100
Dear Mr/Ms Architect,
FAKE Design, Beijing extends a warm invitation to you and ninety-nine other architects from around the globe to participate in an unprecedented architectural
collaboration for the year 2008.
You are one of one-hundred international architects and designers specifically
recommended by Herzog & De Meuron to come to China and design 100 villas in a
newly emerging residential district in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.
Attached, you will find a letter of invitation along with a package of materials to introduce you to the scope and services of the project. Please carefully
read through all of the enclosed material and submit the requested confirmation
form by the deadline of January 6 th, 2008.
Time is very limited, so please do not hesitate to download the attached materials and reserve your position in our team by the deadline!
(P.S. Actually we already sent this e-mail to you(100 architects) 3 weeks ago,
on the 27th of Decembe, 2007, and we are failed to reach your e-mail. So we resend this to you as we just got your new e-mail contacts from herzog de meuron
office yesterday. Also, you may take part in the design assignment of phase 2
as we already confirmed the architects list for phase 1, please see the attached
files for the introduction of the project and we are really sorry for the delay
due to some unexpected incidents.)
Best Regards and We Wish You a Happy New Year!
FAKE Design
No.258 Cao Chang Di, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015
T / F +86 10 8456 4194
Photograph: Work AC
ARCHITECTS (parcel number, name, city,country)*
NORTH AMERICA
2
PRODUCTORA—Condesa, Mexico
6
MOS—Cambridge, MA, USA
7
Lyn Rice Architects—New York, NY, USA
14 Dellekamp Arquitectura, SA de CV—Condesa, Mexico
16 OBRA Architects—New York, NY, USA
24 Multiplicities—New York, NY, USA
29 Bill Price Inc.—Houston, Texas
31 Slade Architecture—New York, NY, USA
33 Barker Freeman Design Office—New York, NY, USA
34 Oyler Wu Collaborative—Los Angeles, USA
35 FRENTEarquitectura, Juan Pablo Maza—Condesa, Mexico
37 UNI: Chaewon Kim, Beat Schenk—Cambridge, MA, USA
38 Keller Easterling—New York, NY, USA
43 IWAMOTOSCOTT—San Francisco, CA, USA
46 Johnston Mark Lee architects—Los Angeles, USA
47 Preston Scott Cohen—Cambridge, MA, USA
48 at103 Pardo, Francisco and Amezcua, Julio—Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
49 Escobedo, Frida—Mexico
52 Bilbao, Tatiana—Mexico City, Mexico
55 Ikstudio, Mariana Ibanez+Simon Kim—Cambridge, MA, USA
61 F451arquitectura—Cambridge, MA, USA
62 Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss/NAO—New York, NY, USA
64 Toshiko Mori Architect—New York, NY, USA
66 PAD—Toronto, Canada
67 Rojkind Arquitectos, Michel Rojkind—Col. Polanco, Mexico
71 rsvp architects—San Juan, Puerto Rico/New York, NY, USA
80 Ingeborg Rocker, Rocker-Lange Architects—Cambridge, MA, USA
86 JSª(formerly Higuera + Sánchez), Javier Sánchez—Mexico City, Mexico
89 nARCHITECTS—New York, NY, USA
92 SINGLE speed DESIGN—Cambridge,MA/New York, NY, USA
93 Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis—New York, NY, USA
97 Taller Territorial de Mexico Arturo Ortiz Struck—Polanco, Mexico
96 WORK Architecture Company—New York, NY, USA
SOUTH AMERICA
17 Leon de Lima—Lima, Peru
32 Aravena, Alejandro—Santiago , Chile
36 Radic Clarke, Similian—Santiago , Chile
56 Dieguez Fridman—Buenos Aires, Argentina
87 Puga, Cecilia—Santiago, Chile
AFRICA
11 BlackLinesonWhitePaper—Johannesburg, South Africa
83 Makeka Designs Mokena Makeka—Cape Town, South Africa
EUROPE
1 Jan De Vylder architecten—Gand, Belgium
3 Rafi Segal Architect Princeton—Princeton, United Kingdom
4 Shadi Rahbaran/studio-sr—Switzerland/Germany
5 Luca Selva Architekten ETH BSA SIA AG—Basel, Switzerland
8 Testbedstudio Architects—Stockholm, Sweden
9 Estudio Barozzi Veiga SL—Barcelona, España
10 Encore heureux + G Studio—Paris, France
12 Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter AB—Stockholm, Sweden
PROGRAM
13 15 19 20 21 22 25 26 27
28 39 40
41
42
44
51
53
54
58
59
60
63 65 68 69 72 73 74 75 76 77 79 82 84 85 88 91 95 98 99 100 NL Architects—Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Könz Molo Architects—Lugano, Switzerland
Coll-Leclerc, Arquitectos SL—Barcelona, Spain
Mimarlar Yapi Tasarim Mühendislik Ve Danismanlik Hizmetleri—­Istanbul, Turkey
Pedrocchi Meier Architects—Basel, Switzerland
John Palmesino/Palmesino Rönnskog-Territorial Agency—Basel, Switzerland
Manuel Herz Architecture—Basel, Switzerland
R&Sie(n), architect-Paris-NY—Paris, France
Christophe Hutin Architecture—Bordeaux, France
NU architectuuratelier—Gent, Belgium
Ann-Sofi Rönnskog/Palmesino Rönnskog-Territorial Agency—Basel, Switzerland
L’Atelier Provisoire—Bordeaux, France
Jean-Frédéric Luscher Architect—Basel, Switzerland
Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten GmbH—Stuttgart, Germany
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen—Belgium
HHF—Basel, Switzerland
ines huber architektin eth sia—Basel, Switzerland
Buchner Bründler AG, Andras Brundler—Basel, Switzerland
Christ + Gantenbein—Basel, Switzerland
Colboc & Franzen—Paris, France
Bachelard Wagner Architekten ETH SIA, Anne Marie Wagner—Basel, Switzerland
Polaris Architects—Luxembourg-Belair, Luxembourg
Michelle Howard, constructconcept—Berlin, Germany
Sanaksenaho, Matti—Finland
DRDH Architects Daniel Rosbottom, David Howarth London, UK
Milica Topalovic - Bas Princen - Paul Gerretsen­—Basel, Switzerland
Heiermann Architekten, und Severin Heiermann Bernadette—Cologne, France
JDS architects - Julien De Smedt—Copenhagen, Denmark
Simon Conder associates, Nile street studios—London, United Kingdom
Sami arquitectos—Setubal, Portugal
Larnaudie Jean & Luc—Toulouse, France
Lost Architekten > Dietrich Lohmann—Basel, Switzerland
Mazzapokora, Daniel Pokora Gabriela Mazza—Zürich
AndreasThiele.Architekten/Ines Geisler—Berlin, Germany
Weizman Architecture­—London, UK
Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Sami Rintala + Dagur Eggertsson—Oslo, Norway
JSA @ Norway - Jensen Skodvin Arch., Jan Olav Jensen—Norway
weberbuess Architekten—Basel, Switzerland
Miller Maranta Architekten—Basel, Switzerland
HA :SKA, Mia Hagg+Sunkoo Kang+Jennifer Schmachtenberg—Paris, France
Ligia Nobre + Eduardo de Oliveira Rosa—Brazil/Switzerland
Mierta & Kurt Lazzarini Architects—Samedan, Switzerland
ASIA
18 Senan Architects—Jerusalem, Israel
23 Matharoo Associates—Ahmedabad, India
30 Atelier Bow Wow/ Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Momoyo Tsukamoto—Tokyo, Japan
45 Efrat-Kowalsky Architects—Tel Aviv, Israel
50 Jun Igarashi Architects inc.—Hokkaido, Japan
57 Minsuk Cho Mass Studies—Seoul, Korea
70 Fujimoto, Sou—Japan
78 Purnomo, Adi—Indonesia
81 Lekker Design, Ker-Shing Ong & Josh Comaroff—Singapore, Malaysia
90 Babel Architects - Sharon Rotbard, Dan Hasson,Yuval Yasky—Tel Aviv
94 Zenin, Adrian—Jakarta , Indonesia
ABOVE GROUND
INDOOR GARDEN/SMALL COURTYARDS
40 m2
LIVING AND RECEIVING AREAS
Entrance hall
Big dining room
Big living room
Small dining room
Small living room
Study
Toilet
Western style kitchen
Garage (2 cars)
40 m2
40 m2
50 m2
25 m2
25 m2
20 m2
10 m2
20 m2
40 m2
ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS
Bedroom 1
Bathroom 1
Bedroom 2
Bathroom 2
Bedroom 3
Bathroom 3
Optional bedroom 4
Optional bathroom 4
Optional bedroom 5
Optional bathroom 5
30 m2
10 m2
25 m2
10 m2
25 m2
8 m2
20 m2
8 m2
20 m2
8 m2
EXERCISE
Swimming pool/pool area
Gym/game room
Bathroom/changing
90 m2
40 m2
15 m2
MASTER BEDROOM
Bedroom
Bathroom
Closet
45 m2
15 m2
10 m2
WORKERS
Laundry Workers bedroom
Workers bathroom
Chinese style kitchen
10 m2
20 m2
10 m2
10 m2
BELOW GROUND
LOUNGE
Home entertainment center
Sauna
30 m2
15 m2
SERVICE
Storage
Equipment room
Vault
Wine cellar
20 m2
15 m2
4.5 m2
10 m2
TOTAL AREA +20% Circulation and exterior wall area
834 m2
167 m2
TOTAL AREA
1000 m2
*Source: http://www.ordos100.com/architeclist.htm, September 26, 2008
DESIGN CRITERIA
SETBACK REQUIREMENTS
—1.5 M FROM PUBLIC AREA, 3 M FROM NEIGHBORING PARCEL
The provided footprint is the preferable location in relation to neighboring buildings. Those
who wish to deviate from the provided footprint must coordinate with the architects of the
neighboring parcels
VOLUME AND SIZE REQUIREMENTS
—TOTAL BUILT AREA
1000 m2 (includes exterior and interior walls)
—BUILDING HEIGHT TO PARCEL SIZE RATIO
Parcels over 1500 m2 require 3 floors @ 3.5 m minimum floor to floor which equals a 10.5 m total
building height.
Parcels less than 1500 m2 require 2 floors @ 3.5 m floor to floor minimum which equals a 7 m
total building height
ORIENTATION N/S/E/W
—SOUTHERN ORIENTATION
due to climate conditions in northern China and Chinese tradition houses should have southern
orientation
DAYLIGHTING
— WINDOW TO WALL RATIO
North wall as required by program
South wall maximum 100%
East wall maximum 80%
West wall maximum 50%
CONSTRUCTION METHODS
— CAST IN PLACE LOAD BEARING STRUCTURE
Applications: wall/floor/roofing
— PRECAST CONCRETE
Applications: wall/floor/roofing
Foundation types: footings/piles/slabs
— MODULAR BRICK MASONRY
Applications: cladding/infill/interior walls
— MODULAR STONE MASONRY
Applications: cladding/infill
— STEEL/METAL
Applications: light gauge framing and interior finishes
— WOOD
Applications: interior framing and interior finishes
THERMAL PROTECTION
—RIGID INSULATION
Roof/wall/slab/foundation
—BATT INSULATION
Relevant interior walls/subflooring
MOISTURE PROTECTION
—WATER BARRIER
Waterproofing below foundation /roof
—VAPOR BARRIER
Vapor barrier in walls
HEATING
—RADIANT HEATING
Electrical radiant heating (floor or wall) / water radiant heating (floor or wall)
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007. Lyn Rice Architects
016. OBRA Architects
024. *multiplicities
031. Slade Architecture
033. Barker Freeman Design Office
038. Keller Easterling
062. Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO
064. Josh Uhl / Toshiko Mori Architect
071. r s v p architects, psc San Juan-New York
089. nARCHITECTS
092. SINGLE speed DESIGN
093. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
096. WORKac
7. Lyn Rice Architects
16. OBRA Architects
16. *multiplicities
31. Slade Architecture
33. Barker Freeman Design Office
38. Keller Easterling
62. Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO
64. Josh Uhl / Toshiko Mori Architect
71. r sv p architects, psc San Juan-New York
89. nARCHITECTS
96. WORKac
92. SINGLE speed DESIGN
7. Lyn Rice Architects
31. Slade Architecture
16. OBRA Architects
24. *multiplicities
33. Barker Freeman Design Office
38. Keller Easterling
13:100
558 words on 13:100
7. Lyn Rice Architects
Lyn Rice, principal; Astrid Lipka, associate principal; Ivan Chabra, project
architect; Benjamin Cadena, project designer; Karl-Erik Larson; Steven
Chen; Clara Wong; Daria Supp; Buro Happold: Cristobal Correa, associate principal
Notwithstanding the current fascination among curators and critics for
an “architecture beyond building,” the desire to build remains powerful among architects themselves. The Ordos 100 offers one hundred
emerging architects from around the world, many of whom have never
built a free-standing building, what could be regarded as the dream
commission: the opportunity to design a single-family home, without
a specific client to complicate the design process, in a country with
considerable architectural momentum. As conceived by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, however, the highly unusual configuration of the project—one hundred villas of 1,000 square meters, each designed by a
different architect within one hundred days—transforms Ordos into
something much more than the typical house commission.
16. OBRA Architects
Pablo Castro and Jennifer Lee; Shin Kook Kang; Atsushi Koizumi; Sara
Kim; Patricia Bohrer; Ricardo Escutia; Soojeong Jo; Jiyoung Kim; Mingkyu Kim; Yixin Liu; Doreen Lam; Alvaro Mayoral; Selin Semaan; Paula
Zapolski; Arup: Mahadev Raman, Brian Markham, Rajesh Shah
24. *multiplicities
Daniel Holguin; Issei Suma; Perla Pequeño; Joanna Park Sohn; Christopher Chan; Nicole Rodríguez; Masayuki Sono; Ove Arup, New York:
Methus Srisuchart, Tatchapon Lertwirojkul; Jee Won Kim Architects: ID
Engineer, Virginia Harper
31. Slade Architecture
James Slade, Principal; Hayes Slade, Principal; Emily Andersen, Associate; Tia Bouman; Jean Pierre Casillas; Rajiv Fernandez; Tian Gao; Jeremy
Kim; Eliza Koshland; Tammy LePham; Julia Molloy; Chia Ping; Lamar
Wembley; Kory Whittaker; Stephanie Wong; Gilsanz Murray Steficek;
Ramon Gilsanz; Jessica Mandrake; Arup: Fiona Cousins, Kristina Taylor
33. Barker Freeman Design Office
Alexandra Barker; Reid Freeman; Rich Garlock, Leslie E. Robertson Associates; Ben Martinson; Jennifer Hardy; Renee Glick; Daniel Ramirez;
Hart Marlow; Adrien Allred; William Wong; Michael Russo; Cole Belmont; Phuong Nguyen; Katy Seaman; Bill Caplan; Pratt Institute
38. Keller Easterling
Fred Scharmen; R. Gerard Pietrusko; Andy Lucia; Matt Lake; Vivian Chin;
Mohamad Al Kayer; Atelier 10: Paul Stoller
62. Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss/NAO
64. Josh Uhl/Toshiko Mori Architect
71. r s v p architects, psc San Juan-New York
62. Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, partner; E Thaddeus Pawlowski, partner; Kevin
Keller, designer; ; Julia Murphey, designer; Ding Liu, intern; Margaux
Schindler, intern; Kristen Smith, intern; Renderings: Benjamin Muller &
NAO; Model: Johnny Lee; Structural Engineer: Jane Wernick Engineers,
London; Translation: Tao Liu, Ding Liu
64. Josh Uhl / Toshiko Mori Architect
Project Architect: Josh Uhl; Project Team: Aejie Rhyu, Justin Brown, Florian Lippmann, Phoebe Springstubb
89. nARCHITECTS
92. SINGLE speed DESIGN
93. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
89. nARCHITECTS
Eric Bunge, principal; Mimi Hoang, principal; Dominique Gonfard;
Hubert Pelletier; Alice Wong, Project Manager; Adam Vana; Consulting
Engineers: Ove Arup, New York; Mahadev Raman, Mechanical; Markus
Schulte, Structural; Thomas Claassen, Structural; Translation: Lingchen
Liu, Architect, Beijing
92. SINGLE speed DESIGN
Jinhee Park AIA; John Hong AIA/LEED; Brett Albert; Frederick Peter
Ortner; Matt Allen; Caroline Lang; Clara Wong; Bao Wei; Structural
Engineer: Paul Kassabian, SGH Inc.
96. WORKac
10 questions for 13:100
Project_, in collaboration with the Architectural
League, asked each of the thirteen architects in
the exhibition to respond to the following list of
ten questions, inviting them to articulate their
thoughts about the Ordos 100 and reflect on
their participation in the project. Excerpts from
these interviews constitute the audio portion of
the exhibition. The complete video interviews
are available on the League’s web site, www.
archleague.org.
71. r s v p architects, psc San Juan-New York
Francisco Javier Rodríguez, AIA; Rodrigo Vidal; Carlos Pérez-Ortiz; Carlos García Moreira; Katia González; Jeannette Reyes; Ariana Hernández;
César Noriega; Shellar García; Clara Tresgallo; Juan Carlos Báez; Hadit
Mejía; Cristina Marrero; Gabriel Blackburn; Edwin Gómez; Structural:
Weidlinger-NY; Mechanical: J.L. Marrero, PE; Electrical: Luis Cabrera, PE
1. What was your initial reaction to the
invitation? Did you ever consider not accepting
the commission?
4. To what extent were you designing with Chinese construction techniques and standards in
mind? How is this reflected in your design?
8. Can you imagine an equivalent development/
situation to the Ordos 100 in the US? Why, how,
or why not?
2. How aware were you of Ai Weiwei’s work
when you accepted the commission? To what
extent do you think we need to see the Ordos
100 project in the context of his work thus far?
5. Please describe what is architecturally at stake
in your project? What were you after architecturally?
9. Please describe how you think the sheer size
of the Ordos undertaking impacts the role and
the position of the architect.
6. How do you feel about your participation in
the project now that the design phase is over?
10. Describe your dream commission.
3. Describe how you dealt with designing a
private residence for an abstract client.
7. What do you think of the site plan and the
cumulative effect of the Ordos 100 architectural
interventions?
93. Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
Paul Lewis; Marc Tsurumaki; David J. Lewis; Michael Tyre; Deric Mizokami; Katherine Snider; Kristen Nakamura; Laura Cheung; Mia Lorenzetti;
Eli Allen
96. WORKac
Amale Andraos; Dan Wood; Anne Menke; Mikkel Bogh; Amie Shao;
HVAC System: Arup MEP; Roger Chang; Structural Engineers: LERA,
Dan Sesil and Patrick Hopple
Though a relatively small project—however large the homes, this residential development barely registers when compared to the massive
developments now underway elsewhere in China, the Middle East,
and other regions around the world–Ordos amplifies contemporary
concerns about ecology, economic inequity, celebrity, and cultural hegemony. The result leaves many in the international architecture community with a great sense of unease. The environmental implications
of building a residential development in a desert region have been described as potentially disastrous. The site plan has been characterized
as a poorly considered, culturally inappropriate reinterpretation of a
1950s American suburb. And a collection of one hundred villas, each
more than 10,000 square feet in a country where families are limited to
one child, is considered by many to be unseemly, if not obscene.
Given these concerns, it is reasonable to question whether an exhibition about the Ordos 100 is appropriate. Doesn’t it run the risk
of seeming to celebrate the project, of holding it up as a model of
enlightened development or otherwise conferring on it some degree
of cultural authority? That is not the League’s intention. Rather, we
want to give the participating architects an opportunity to make a
case for why Ordos matters. In an installation designed by Project_,
each of the thirteen New York-based architects participating in Ordos
has been given 1/100 of the gallery to present their project in images,
texts, drawings, and a 1:100 scale model. Additionally, audio excerpts
of interviews conducted over the past two months are included to
allow architects to describe in their own words their experiences
working on the project and how they feel about it now that the design
phase has come to an end.
Many critics have suggested that Ordos might have been more acceptable had the houses not been so large or the list of architects so
long. It is a fascinating exercise, in fact, to try to identify the point at
which Ordos passes, for its critics, from unremarkable to objectionable. Would it be a better project if there were only twenty houses, or
if the houses were only 5,000 square feet? To argue for a different set
of variables, however, misses the point. As many of the architects in
the exhibition maintain, Ordos has to be the size and scale that it is
for it to make sense. It is only in the accumulation, in the intensification of the everyday compromises that architects face—whether they
are aesthetic, economic, structural, or ethical—that Ordos begins to
reveal the complexity of how buildings are made and forces us all to
confront those realities of architectural practice that can otherwise
remain obscured.
—Gregory Wessner
Exhibition Curator
13:100 | Thirteen New York Architects Design for Ordos
Organized by the Architectural League of New York
Curator: Gregory Wessner
Exhibition design: Project_ (Ana Miljacki and Lee Moreau) with
Benjamin Porto and Daniel Sakai
13:100 Guide: Luke Bulman/Thumb
Box display fabrication: Paul Poggi
Sound editing: Project_ with Sarah Hirschman
Sound mastering: Project_ with Mateja Miljacki
Research assistant: Sarah Snider
Photograph: Work AC
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