Orozco House

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Challenges

History of architecture is both a combination of realism (functionalism) and utopia. We wanted to combine our interest in organic architecture with a rational system. Every key villa in history has produced surprise and terror in its time. Modernity is no longer interesting for housing projects, because it doesn't translates today's reality. We should avoid a symmetrical structure, as sites and situations are strongly asymmetric.

Realization

The artist doubted between building this house or buying an apartment in Paris. Paris won.

Parameters

• Program: A house for the artist and his future family.
• Restrictions: None.
• Site: Next to the Tepozteco (magical mountain), surrounded by intense vegetation.
• Location: Tepoztlan, between Cuernavaca and Mexico City.
• Year: 1999

Client

• Ambitions: To enjoy the possibility of imagining a experimental house.
• Profile: Visionary artist with high analytical capacity.

Credits

• Text and Photographs: Courtesy, the Architect
• Compiled by: Mitesh Saraf

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