MAD architects: ordos museum completed

‘ordos museum’ by MAD architects, ordos inner mongolia, china video still of main entrance and facade video © MAD architects

chinese practice MAD architects has sent us a video featuring their completed ‘ordos museum’ located in ordos, inner mongolia, china. the film has been directed by niu han who has captured the interior and exterior structure of the art and city museum. the undulating mass represents the crossroads faced by the surrounding community which is striving to interpret their local traditions within the newly constructed urban context. commissioned in 2005 as the masterplan for the metropolis was created, the domed form is intended to contain the cultural history of the region while resisting the rational and geometric urban grid.

final completion of this center offers a moment of pause for the residents whom have endured years of construction and finally gather within the space. the past and contemporary are joined into one location, providing the young community with a new spirit. extensive roof glazing will introduce cascading light through the continuous interior while polished metal louvers filter solar gain and introduce natural ventilation.

see designboom’s initial coverage of this project here.

video still of stairs leading to main entrance video © MAD architects

ma yansong, founder of MAD architects will be speaking at the designboom conversation: contemporary chinese architecture from the outside in at beijing design week 2011.

video still of site approach video © MAD architects

video still of museum interior view video © MAD architects

exterior during construction image courtesy of silencium07

installation of roof glazing and metal panels image courtesy of silencium07

video © MAD architects