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LUM House / Cazú Zegers

Andreas Luco — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The owners, a middle-aged couple living in the countryside working with plants and essential oils, are at the origin of the concept design for this house. The husband, a person of great humor, named the house La Ultima Morada, therefore LUM. The name translates in English as: “Last Resting Place,” but LUM works only in Spanish. He also had an idea of the form, and they planted and created the garden on site, so I used his ideas and the garden as a starting point.

PYR House / Cazú Zegers

Andreas Luco — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Context and concept. The site for this project proved challenging, with the sun coming from behind the main view of the lake, an orientation that defines the architectural concept, along with the proximity of a forty-foot (twelve-meter) cliff.

Ye House / Cazú Zegers

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 03:00:00 +0000

From the T house of Cazú Zegers, designed in 2009 and built in 2011 on the shore of Laguna de Aculeo in Chile, a way of naming the projects arises, which comes from the alphabet, it is the alphabet of the poetic word and with this a series of houses that are the abstract synthesis of a letter that becomes a work of architecture. It has to do with the creation of reality through language. Each "letter house" has a unique dialogue with the landscape, a territorial dialogue where the work is a unity between landscape and architecture. The Ye house is a pavilion suspended over a landscape of myrtles with a privileged view of the Cayumapu River and its wetlands, created after the earthquake of May 29, 1960, in Valdivia. These wetlands have a rich fauna of birds such as the endemic black-necked swan and a dense vegetation layer composed of reeds and lotus flowers, among other species that are very characteristic of these territories.

House K / Cazú Zegers

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 03:00:00 +0000

During the first decade of the millennium, Cazú Zegers incorporated a way of naming projects based on the alphabet. It is the alphabet of the poetic word and with this a series of houses that are the abstract synthesis of a letter that becomes a work. It has to do with the creation of reality through language. Each "letter house" has a unique dialogue with the landscape, a territorial dialogue where the work is a unity between landscape and architecture. The letter K arises in complex terrain, steep and at the same time of great beauty, due to the abundant native vegetation of the Mediterranean climate. It is urban land, with a strong territorial presence, located in the last urbanized land of the Lomas de la Dehesa Condominium. It is adjacent to what will be the future Metropolitan Park of La Dehesa in Santiago Chile.

LLU House / Cazú Zegers

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:00:00 +0000

The project is proposed in the concept of a "Family Lodge", which aims to house a complete family of 4 generations, and friends. Located in the south of Chile, in the Region of Los Ríos, which is a very rainy place. From this rainy condition is born the poetic words that leads the concept of the architectural design. The first words are; "a mantle to protect from the rain", inspired by the precarious tents, which are made by the local lumberjacks, in the forest. With a nylon tensioned by threads, and sometimes with a central pillar to let the water run off the simple construction. The word “water" is the second poetic word that guides the design. The geometrical composition of the water molecule was studied. Thus the idea of three connected elements joined under a great mantle, to create the necessary protecting for the rain.

Fire House / Cazú Zegers

Igor Fracalossi — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:00:00 +0000

The purpose of this house is to build a family gathering place that could host during one month up to eight families concurrently or receive a single person alone in winter.

Cube House and Studio / Cazú Zegers

Clara Ott — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:00:00 +0000

A studio. A cube studio for a painter.

Soplo House / Cazú Zegers G.

Igor Fracalossi — Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

“Soplo”, Spanish for “breath”, which breathes life, is the wind that passes smoothly through the openings. It is the shapes that draws the wind on the sand.

Flashback: Casa Do / Cazú Zegers

Igor Fracalossi — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

A way of living inside two curving walls that shelter like a womb, over looking the vastness of the pacific ocean, on the northern shores of Chile the project surges from the mandate of a house to be used as a resting place, during weekends, summer vacations, etc. It is located on a family owned terrain, where other house, of different styles, already existed.

Territoria / Cazú Zegers

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The point of departure that structures the original project concept is the building’s name: "Territoria" = territory, therefore the architecture "appropriates" the geography of Chile

Hotel Tierra Patagonia / Cazu Zegers Arquitectura

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:30:00 +0000

The hotel is located at the northern entrance of Torres del Paine National Park, on the shores of Lake Sarmiento. The place has a great magnitude compared to the vastness of Patagonia Austral. These features connect the project to the magnitude of the territory.