Conceived as an Inner House within an Outer House, this villa combines two distinct spatial and thermal conditions. The Inner House is designed to be compact and essential, containing 60 percent of the project’s total volume and 75 percent of its area. The Outer House provides a protective enclosure and a series of interconnected, voluminous, skylit spaces.
This layered strategy responds to the extreme swings of the Ordos desert climate with efficiencies in environmental and material strategies. At the same time, Villa Villa provides its inhabitants with a variety of modes of living, as they occupy a house that expands and contracts according to the seasons.
