Intervention “Illuminating The Casa-Jardín of Luis Barragán”
Lutron Latinoamérica
November, 2021
The Casa-Jardín Ortega (Ortega House-Garden) is both a house and a museum where the same family since the 40s has lived until this day, maintaining the house in Luis Barragán’s original design from 1942-1947. Later, he left this house to create his own home in the neighboring property in the neighborhood of Tacubaya, which is considered today to be one of his biggest realized works, forming part of an iconic node in cultural and architectural heritage within the city as recognized by UNESCO.
Hand in hand with LIGA and the Ortega family, Lutron have been given the task of utilizing light and technology as tools to explore the relationship between the interiors, patios, and gardens of the Casa-Jardín Ortega, blurring the lines defining these spaces at nightfall. Lighting designers and architects of the current generation experiment with a different perspective and present these spaces as open, graphic-gallery rooms by testing and breaking down the phenomenological limits of the colors and forms of both architecture and landscape with modern technology.
LIGA, Space for Architecture, is a not-for-profit initiative that gives thanks to and includes the creativity and enthusiasm of invited designers, whose commitments to preserving the legacy of Barragán contributed to this project. The funds raised will be allocated to the conservation and maintenance of Casa Ortega, a project considered to be the best kept secret of the works of Luis Barragán.
