€ Architects: Taller Territorial
de Mexico Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox
In the interior, the house is divided in four clusters, which are orientated from south to north. The first cluster, next to the street, has the garage, the laundry, the machinery room and a storage. The second cluster is divided in two areas. The first one at the south of the house, (western style kitchen, the small living and dinning room in the ground floor, while there is the workers bedroom with a terrace, and the chinese style kitchen in the first floor .The second area of this cluster is at the north of the house, and it contain a library and a studio. In the basement includes a wine cellar/lounge, a vault and a machinery room for the pool. The third cluster is the public area with the big living and dinning room, and with a double height. There are also a toilet and the stairs able to distribute all the house levels. In this same cluster, there is the pool and a game room in the basement. The last cluster consists on the private area and includes four bedroom on the ground level and the first floor, and a master bedroom in the second floor. In the basement the cluster includes the gym, the sauna and a bathroom.
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plot is located in a sand area. The structure is shaped by the continuous structural wall, and the clusters structural walls. The most large distance between walls are 8 meters. The elements that define the shape of the house are the prefabricated concrete slabs and the brick structural walls with a concrete frame in the interior