ordos 100

for a while now arch daily has been featuring these Ordo projects one by one but it finally caught my attention today with the entry from Atelier Bow Wow whom i also just found out today that one of the partners, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto will be lecturing at Slocum sometime soon.
So i went and googled it.

Project Statement: The scope of the project is to Develop 100 hundred villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, for the Client, Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd. FAKE Design, Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing, has developed the masterplan for the 100 parcels of land and will curate the project, while Herzog and de Meuron have selected the 100 architects to participate. The collection of 100 Architects hail from 27 countries around the globe. The project has been divided into 2 phases. The first phase is the development of 28 parcels while the second phase will develop the remaining 72. Each architect is responsible for a 1000 square meter Villa.
- ORDOS 100,FAKE DESIGN

It reminded me of a project I've studied last semester, Borneo Sporenburg master planed by West 8. These projects where the master-planner set up guidelines and the overall vision for the project, then invite other architects to put their two cents in are really interesting. The whole project then becomes this unique identity.. composed of different identities in coherence.