posts tagged ‘desert’
ORDOS100 | out of Ordos
July 9th, 2008 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: desert, embedded, on-the-move, ordos 鄂尔多斯, ordos100, urbanism
Saturday, June 28. Sunday, June 29. The last days of the second phase of ORDOS100. Day 4 continued with the critiques of the 36 proposals that were previously presented. Day 5, Mr. Cai, the client, and FAKE Design offered the architects a late afternoon dinner, toasted around and wished them a good journey back home.
Followed a last tour through the ‘old Ordos’, taking a 38 kilometers drive to the new airport, while the sun was lightening up the green desert. Architects checked in and flew in two airplanes back to Beijing.
ORDOS100 | site visit
July 7th, 2008 • architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: construction, desert, embedded, maquettes, ordos 鄂尔多斯, ordos100, urbanism
Friday, June 27. Day 3 of the second phase of ORDOS100. The 36 architects that presented their proposals on the first day received their critiques. The others lounged in the hotel or went for a site visit. Mónica Carriço | movingcities joined the desert trip visiting the site with Inês Vieira da Silva and Miguel Vieira | SAMI Arquitectos (PT). read more »
ORDOS100 | Ordos City
April 19th, 2008 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: desert, embedded, ordos 鄂尔多斯, ordos100, urbanism
The ORDOS100-project is located in the Ordos Cultural Creative Industry Park and sits on a plot of 197 ha. This project is part of the planning of a new 155 sq kilometers city in Inner-Mongolia, planned from scratch for a population of 200,000 in the year 2020. An impression of a city under construction.
ORDOS100 | 100 architects site visit
April 18th, 2008 • cities, movingmemos
Tags: desert, embedded, ordos 鄂尔多斯, ordos100, urbanism
Desert Dérive or Sand Situationism. The 100 architects involved in ORDOS100 visited the site on April 14. Ground has almost broken, trees have been planted, spring emerges and in comparison with our previous visit, sand has replaced snow.
Be’er Sheva field trip
March 15th, 2008 • architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, beersheba, desert, urbanism
On Thursday March 6, we went on a field trip to Be’er Sheva (Beersheba), the largest city in the Negev Desert. In preparation for our research on desert cities we couldn’t miss this one, ‘the Capital of the Negev’. Be’er Sheva is the sixth largest city in Israel and has a population of approximately 200,000. The field trip was organized by architect Yuval Yasky, from the City/State Unit at Bezalel. On the program: Israel longest housing block, the quarter kilometer block, a model neighborhood and the Ben Gurion University. It was hot, intense, architectural and spoke of a belief in a future that never really happened. It seems.
Negev fieldtrip
March 4th, 2008 • cities, movingmemos, travel
Tags: arad, desert, negev, on-the-move, urbanism
Ordos snapshots
January 28th, 2008 • 1 comment architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, desert, ordos 鄂尔多斯, ordos100
recent comments