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ZDA · Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, Mexico · 2016
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Casa Ortega
A lighting installation in the garden of Luis Barragán's Ortega House.
The glowing cube in the stone patio at dusk.
- Practice
- ZDA
- Year
- 2021
- Photographer
- Arturo Arrieta
The project
ZDA created this installation in 2021 for the Ortega House and garden in Mexico City, designed and built by Luis Barragán between 1940 and 1942 and preserved unaltered. It was part of a project to illuminate the house and garden.
Conceiving the garden as a lamp, the studio asked how lighting shapes space. A glowing gridded cube set in the stone-paved patio echoes the steel window grids of the house and casts warm light across the walls and planting at dusk.
The house windows and the cube along a narrow patio.
The illuminated cube among the garden trees.
A gridded window glowing pink and blue.
Credits
- Designer
- ZDA
- Photographer
- Arturo Arrieta
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