Artist Ai Weiwei and his firm FAKE Design invited Testbedstudio, as one of 100 firms globally, to design a 1,000 m² villa for the Ordos 100 project. The architects were selected by Herzog & de Meuron. The site is in the newly built city of Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia, as part of the Jiang Yuan Cultural and Creative Industrial Park. Other invited firms included NL Architects, Sou Fujimoto, MOS, Office KGDVS, and Tham & Videgård.

Testbedstudio's response to the brief is the "100 Room Villa." Built from solid brick, 32 by 16 metres in plan with an 8-metre eaves height, the house is conceived as a massive brick volume perforated by voids. These cavities form 100 distinct rooms, each with its own identity and character: the Red Room, Sky Room, Object Room, Monk Cell, Junk Space, and so on.