The Ordos project in China offers 100 different architects from around the world to develop a 1000 square meter villa that fits into a master plan by Ai Wei Wei studio in Beijing.

This villa by Christ & Gantenbein is one example of how the masterplan calls for architects to make small spaces feel larger, and create unique houses that still are apart of the community, private for the residents while maintaining connection to the community.

Archicentral provides the following description of villa 058 by Christ & Gantenbein. “The project deals about privacy within a dense urban settlement. Nothing reveals from the outside, that 058 is a courtyard house. The living spaces are organized around an enclosed space whose mirroring surfaces, similar to the external ones, give it an infinite appearance. The mirrors chimerically open the courtyard into the wideness of the inner-Mongolian landscape. One single tree planted in the centre is multiplied into a forest. So the 058-villa has a secret mystic private space completely different from the urban public space around the house.” Read post in archiCentral.