martes, 16 de agosto de 2011

ORDOS 100, MOS ARCHITECTS

Architects: MOS,Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, CHINA
Design team: Lasha Brown, James Tate, Lorenzo Marasso, Heather Bizon,
Shu- Chang, Vivian Chin (translation)

Structural Engineering: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger- Paul Kassabian
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, ChinaClient: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

http://www.mos-office.net/
tel: 646 797 3046
fax: 866 431 3928
skype: mos.architects

The relationship of the house to the sun is critical. In a climate such as Ordos’ which experiences hot summers and cold winters, it is the architectural form which integrates the effects of the sun’s light and heat with the comfort of the occupied spaces. The house controls heat and light through two primary aspects: window placement and the solar chimney.
In the wintertime when the sun is lower and the need for internal heat greater, the windows and skylights, oriented towards the south, west and east, allow sunlight to enter. Passive heating is achieved as the masonry walls and floors absorb the accompanying solar radiation which then is released to heat the spaces.
In the summer, when the sun is higher and thetemperatures greater, it is more important to keep the occupied spaces cool. The deep window sills help to shade the interior spaces from the higher summer sun while still allowing in ambient light. Because heat rises, the solar chimney acts to draw hot air up and away from the occupied spaces, and the hot air is further removed through the operable skylights. Lower, cooler air is then drawn into the space at the occupancy level, further helping to cool the rooms. Furthermore, the masonry walls and floors slow and decrease the transmission of solar radiation into the interior spaces.























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They really don't know exactly when MOS started, but it was sometime in 2003. When they began, their name was !@#?, which we quickly found was too difficult to use because 1. you couldn't pronounce it and 2. you couldn't get a web address. So eventually they drifted towards MOS - an acronym of our names and a shared desire to be horizontal and fuzzy, as opposed to tall and shiny. They began our makeshift office around a large table and began working through a range of design experiments - a make-believe of architectural fantasies, problems, and thoughts about what we would be building if we could only get the work. Today, as they have grown, they continue to operate around one large table as a design office that works closely on each project through playful experimentation and serious research. They engage architecture as an open system of interrelated issues ranging from architectural typology, digital methodologies, building performance, structure, fabrication, materiality, tactility, and use, as well as larger networks of the social, cultural, and environmental. Their inclusive process allows MOS to operate at a multiplicity of scales.
Selected Awards and Citations
2010 Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2009 Young Architects Award PS1/MoMA Summer Pavilion Winners
2009 Progressive Architecture Award, Drive-In and Park, Marfa Texas
2008 Architectural Record: Design Vanguard
2008 Surface Magazine, The Avant-Guard Awards: The Scholars
2008 First Prize “Flip a Strip� Competition, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2008 Emerging Voices Series,The Architectural League of New York, New York
2008 Finalist, Iakov Chernikhov International Prize
2007 I.D. magazine, Design Distinction, IVY, 53rd Annual Design Review,
2005 First Prize, Architecture/Design, "AICA," Association Internationale des Critiques d'art <
2005 I.D. Award Best in Category, Puppet Theater, 51rd Annual Design Review

Selected Exhibitions
2010 Majestic, Tobias Putrih & MOS, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
2010 Instant Untitled, Workshopping, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2010 Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2009 Without Out, Tobias Putrih & MOS, List Centre for Contemporary Art , M.I.T.
2009 Intervention#10, Tobias Putrih & MOS, Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Overhang, Tobias Putrih & MOS, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art , NewCastle, England
2008 Artist Space, Matters of Sensation New York, NY, USA
2008 CStem 2008 – Breeding Objects Torino, Italy
2008 Flexibility-Design in a Fast Changing Society Torino World Design Capital, Torino, Italy
2008 Venice Biennale Experimental Architecture Padiglione Italia Pavilion
2008 ‘Flip-a-Strip’ Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2008 Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA
2007 International Conference Urban Health Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2007 Scripted by Purpose, FUEL Collection 249 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2007 Work by MOS , Cite de l’architecture et du partimoine, Paris, France
2007 Design Triennale - iVY, Design Life Now, ICA, Boston, MA, USA
2007 Young Architects Program, PS1/MoMa, New York, NY, USA
2006 Beyond the Harvard Box, Harvard Graduate School of Design
2007 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennale Design Life Now, New York
2007 Living Spaces, ICFF, New York
2005 SoftCell, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
2004 Young Architects Program PS1/MoMa, New York, NY, USA