Orozco House

A:master bedroom toilet / B:studio

Level + 3.0 m, level +5.0 m and level + 6.7 m (bottom-up)

Words from the architect

One day we had a talk with the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco who told us he was planning to leave the city and move to a quieter town. We proposed to design a house for him. Shortly after he came to our office and we started designing together. We took the Farnsworth House of Mies Van der Rohe built in 1943 as a reference point for the project . We stacked the various parts of Mies' floor plan in a different way, connected them with surfaces and defined a new geometric volume. We had used the same system for another house developed in OMA, Y2K, where unifying different geometries results in an evolving skin. This previous project was crucial in the design process of the house. Bit-by-bit we transformed the volume, until it finally turned into an already existing morphology: an egg or a riverstone. The client was delighted with this form since it always had been present in the production of his artwork.

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