Daily Dose 1804

Pezo von Ellrichshausen - III

Daily Dose Monographic Images 1804 | Pezo von Ellrichshausen - III Lama pavilion, Yungay "This solitary figure functions as a signal and as a viewpoint of the landscape (both interior and exterior). With a vertical sequence of rooms, it was built to look at the Andes Mountain Range, hidden behind the native forest. Its format is that of a slender volume, formed in turn by two towers: the lower one with an eave that duplicates its roof, the upper one with a terrace that duplicates its floor. The floor and ceiling are a horizontal slab projected halfway up the elevation – a thin cantilevered plane that extends towards the four cardinal points – it has the difficult function of containing a shallow rainwater pond. Thus, this slab becomes a mirror that reflects the upper section of the tower, the sky, and the surrounding trees; but it also transfigures into a fictitious glass, into a transparency, that suggests the presence of the lower tower."