Comments on: Ninetree Village by David Chipperfield Architects

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:05:41 +0000

I agreed with diego. surely all will love to stay there if there is a chance !The chance’s price tag is muti million of US Dollars though. The Chinese should be proud of able to deliver such a project ! Love to see more quality like this in China.

By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:02:51 +0000

So what, if it said if it was in Hokkaido would all your comments be any different? You would probably love it then.
I bet you would all love to live in this so called prison if you only had the chance.
Of course, I like it.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:44:19 +0000

is it exclusive chinese prison?

By: abena

abena — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:59:52 +0000

love the layout,free flowing. this is sustainable,corridors behind slats form a good break a vaccum of some sort. this should encourage some level of energy efficiency.
whats the issue with african jails anyway,Anne,lets not be prejudiced!

By: Pietro Pagliardini

Pietro Pagliardini — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:58:49 +0000

Very, very Chinese indeed! In the bamboo forest a wooden grid and… voilà the project!
Some blocks that could bee everyewhere in the world.
This is a golden jail and the architect is a prisoner of himself and of his brand, forced to be recognizable in every part of the world.

By: Mason

Mason — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:10:33 +0000

I think the plan for the apt is really interesting. It gives a free flowing space with blocks as division instead of normal partitions. It is much more interesting than some other a-list architects doing condos with weird shapes but with your run of the mill high end interior. The site plan works like blocks flowing on water. As for the slates, it looks elegant but I wonder isn’t it Baumschlager Eberle done it like 50 times already.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:19:19 +0000

The checkerboard layout adapted to the site contours works really well – especially the oblique views generated between the blocks. The grids with varied spacings add more to the scheme than it detracts from it (La Tourette comes to mind) – it does soften the elevations a lot.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:18:13 +0000

I don’t recall jails having full-height views. Maybe it is only in Africa that jails have tiny slithers with vertical bars.
The vertical slats are amazing, and I doubt that it will remind anyone of a prison. At least kids won’t be able to climb up the slats and hurt themselves.

By: enrique

enrique — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:30:36 +0000

I also really like practically everything chipperfield does, i’m a big fan and i agree with most posts on how well the project works but i would have thought of designing the louvers differently. but then again, like someone else pointed out, maybe it was chipperfield’s intention all the way along to have bar-like louvers.
i wonder if it was something that kept coming up in his workshop during the design process. haha.

By: MCA

MCA — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:51:17 +0000

subtle, serene, solid