Arango House

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Arango House is a residential house built in 1973 by John Lautner in Acapulco , Mexico. It is the only house Lautner ever built in Mexico and is considered to be one of the most extraordinary homes of the 20th century.

history

Arango House , alternatively also Casa Marbrisa , was commissioned in 1970 by the Mexican entrepreneur Jerónimo Arango as a weekend house for his family. Arango had seen reports of Lautner's 1968 Elrod Residence and wanted to have a holiday home built for Lautner as an architect and Arthur Elrod as an interior designer. Helena Arahuete, a Belgian who had previously been employed by Lautner's company, worked on the design. Arango House is now owned by Arango's family.

style

Arango House, like other buildings built by Lautner, is attributed to the organic architecture that goes back to Frank Lloyd Wright . The two-story building is built on a steeply sloping, 2300 m² property above the Bay of Acapulco. From the street, a driveway winds down the slope, makes a 180-degree turn and ends in the carport under a semicircular roof that spans the entire building. The monumental bronze front door was designed by Mathias Goeritz . The “living room”, which makes up the entire top floor, consists of a large terrace open on all sides with a spectacular view over the Bay of Acapulco. The foundation of this attic, like the entire house, consists of concrete; the terrace consists of a "layer" of unpolished marble and is surrounded by a moat embedded in the concrete. It is partly shaded by the roof resting on pillars. The trench is deep enough to swim in. There is a few pieces of concrete furniture on the terrace. Steel was originally intended as the material for the terrace; however, for cost reasons, concrete was then used. The upper floor rests on a large concrete base in which the living rooms, etc. a. five bedrooms for Arango and his family are built in.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nicholas Olsberg, Between Earth and Heaven - The Architecture of John Lautner, Rizzoli Publications 2008, p. 136
  2. ↑ WorldofWonder.net: ArchitecturePorn: John Lautner's Arango-Marbrisa House Will Blow Your Mind. Retrieved March 30, 2018 .
  3. ^ Nicholas Olsberg, Between Earth and Heaven - The Architecture of John Lautner, Rizzoli Publications 2008, p. 142

Coordinates: 16 ° 49 ′ 21 ″  N , 99 ° 51 ′ 26 ″  W.