Here, the architect has made the formal gesture for a symbolic purpose (”solidification of nomadic tent”).

I understand that architects are part of the globalized styles and/or approaches–MADA s.p.a.m., a Chinese firm, included. What I criticize is not the lack of pure regionalism, but the abundance of superficial attempts to look like a local.

Also, yes, seasonal fruit is a very good idea.

See the ‘well hall’ house, by MADA s.p.a.m. in the following link.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=2226

There’s been a quickness with judgments against foreign practice. With international commerce and trade, I suspect that the local has been supplanted more and more with the global. Cultures have continually been trading ideas and techniques; this has become nearly instantaneous with not only communications but also supply. One may as well stop buying bananas in the winter – if you’ll stretch the idea to available produce – or build with steel from Korea.
The only bastion for the purity of the regional are in trades that have no immediate access to the global market, and are oblivious to things outside their surroundings. Like aboriginal songlines, these are the ones that can uphold a tradition through hermetics and local intensities.

spatially, i do find it interesting, but you would think that a single house in the middle of the desert would be more unique? this is typical cool european architecture…

why is it a square? also, the lot sizes for this development are pretty small…so i agree that the disney land effect seems probably.

the sole contribution to the context are highly distorted, simplified interpretations and often mockeries of age old elements like the tent, the patio and the verandah, but the final creation bears none of the richness of these timeless features. the villian here (not the architect)is the tendency of rich people to order any kind of architecture, in any kind of place. making tents and patios in mongolia is not a fit means of acknowledging context. it is very ‘disneyesque’.

also the image of the solitary ‘tent’ rendering will be so different when this villa is placed amongst the 99 other thematic pieces. what will it then look like?……. just that- a disneylike exhibit.

sorry , but this is not contextual apart from the fact that ‘it sits where it sits, and that might be okay. but please , no romanticization in the name of tents and patios. a stinking rich family is going to live here. best regards!!

Hope you can still correct this post.

Thanks.