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Cable Car Stations Ordos Building
Inner Mongolia Architectural Project, China design by Margot Krasojevic
15 Aug 2011
Cable Car Stations – Dichroic Illusion Stations Design
Location: Ordos Shi, Kubuqi desert, Inner Mongolia, Peoples Republic of China
Design: Margot Krasojevic
Dichroic Illusion Stations
Design Type: 2 cable car stations
Designer: Margot Krasojevic
The project is for the design of 2 cable car stations along the edge of the Gobi desert, starting from Ordos city the trail leads into the desert, a major tourist attraction. The form developed using a computer software which applies the dynamics and physics in order to simulate a specific environment, such as the Ordos desert, this helps understand caustic light patterns predicting the form’s influence within it’s environment. An important mechanical test rather than purely a formal gesture.
The form optimises the use of dichroic and holographic film in glass cladding, which helps to adapt to the specific site conditions and their extreme temperatures and reflectivity. A lightweight organic roof structure floats on top of a concrete plinth.
The artificial landscape functions as a relief in which various movements and circulations are inscribed. The Roof Shell’s fluid shapes and organic contours mimic the nature of the ever changing sand dunes, like it’s environment the structure is never seen in the same way twice. Large cantilevers and small touch down areas underline a floating appearance of the dichroic illusion stations.
The form allows for air to circulate and cool the interior, the plinth prevents conduction of heat from the immediate environment. The structure is lifted from the ground permitting a breeze to move through the pre-cast concrete primary structure.
Ordos Cable Car Stations – Building Information
Type: Cable Car stations
Location: Ordos Shi, Kubuqi desert, Inner Mongolia Peoples Republic of China
Client: Mr Feng Gao , Ordos Shi City Dongsheng district with China Film House, Beijing
Building status: ongoing building work
Site type: rural
Cable Car Stations Ordos images / information from Margot Krasojevic
Margot Krasojevic Architect, London, England
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
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