Casa Lasso

View of south-western quadrant, at night.

Casa Lasso's program is a single-family part time residence composed of four bedrooms, bathrooms, living room, dining room and kitchen. Additionally, there was an equally demanding internally motivated program: the client family was fragmented and the house invested in new social relationships - hence the distribution of paired bedrooms, and communal spaces about the exterior quadrants-. The plan allows for a high degree of collective and individual enterprises: While the project is a continuous ribbon - one big lasso - the public wings face each other at less than 90 degrees so that you can partake of each other activities; the bedroom wings, however, distant themselves from the both the public and the other bedroom wings. In a similar fashion, the garden and main entrances provide either the option of being seen or quietly disappearing into the bedrooms.

View of northern quadrant.

Casa Lasso is a concrete structure with thermal masonry in-fills and a local stone cladding. The millwork is anodized aluminum with insulated glass. The interior floors are from a local chestnut farm. Some interior components are lacquered in three different colors.

Credits

• Text by Julio Salcedo
• Photographs by Miguel de Guzman, Courtesy of Julio Salcedo Design

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