MOORA THE VILLAGE

As part of a small international team, I worked on the concept for village-like residential development in China. My contribution to the project was participation in daily brainstorms followed by scale model production. In one and half months our team produced around 40 variations and experiments on space organization and typologies of the village.

The project had to be an intricate mixture of porous blocks, a multitude of nook plazas, and meandering human-scaled streets. The objective was a creation of a characteristic environment: the novelty, atmosphere, and diversity were criteria. The Moora project did not have a particular deadline or rigid brief so the experimentation went as long as it was required. A wide range of strategies was tested, some of them supposed the creation of a steep artificial landscape, while others suggested more experimental typologies and experimenting with their relations. My involvement in the Moora project was an absorbing exercise in formulating conceptual and spatial ideas.

Option Recessed Courtyards

All the typologies are concealed beneath the ground level. The punctures of sunken courtyards create a second private level of the artificial terrain

Option Blocks

Square blocks are placed on the artificial landscape; Hills on the juncture between blocks create connectivity between separate private domains. Blocks have an inner-oriented character.