Holiday House Pezo

French architecture lover Christian Bourdais has invited a number of young talented creators with his 'Solo Houses' project to design a holiday home in the stunning landscape of the Catalan Matarraña Plateau, the Italian Tuscany, or the French Provence.
So far, six world studios have been invited: Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample from Mos Office, Didier Fuiza Faustino from the Paris studio Mésarchitectures, Tokyo's Sou Fujimoto, and India's studio Mumbai. At this moment, the first holiday house 'Casa Pezo' by the Chilean couple Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen is completed. Other projects 'Casa Mos', 'Casa Faustino', and 'Casa Sou Fujimoto' will soon follow. Bourdais's project strikingly resembles the efforts of the British company 'Living architecture', which aims to bring modern architecture to the general public.
Casa Pezo represents a minimalist sculpture, designed as a light one-story cubus set on a massive concrete base, hovering above the surrounding treetops and fully opening up to the vast landscape. The floor plan of the square ring surrounding the central atrium with a swimming pool consists of twelve identical cubes.
The openness of the layout and the composition in relation to the landscape brings the house closer to Case Study House #22 in Los Angeles by Pierre Koenig, but it does not reach the lightness of this more than half a century-old icon.