Pezo von Ellrichshausen

LAMA Pavilion

LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen

LAMA Pavilion 

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen

COLLABORATORS
Emilie Kjaer, Maria Arnold, Francesco Caminati, Beatrice Pedrotti, Theo Cozzi, Olga Arzul

STRUCTURE
Sergio Contreras

CLIENT
Fundación Artificial

CONSTRUCTION
Constructora Natural

PHOTOGRAPHS
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AREA
35 m²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Yungay, Chile

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Small Scale

This solitary figure functions as a signal and as a viewpoint of the landscape (both interior and exterior).

LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen

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.

LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen

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.

LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen

And even more difficult: like a permanent cloud, the slab throws a dense and compact shadow on the lower tower, and even, on occasions, the rain falls all around the perimeter due to the overflow of the small pond.

Paradoxically, the function of the viewpoint is reversed inside the tower.

Instead of framing the sublime panorama, perhaps tempering an imposing presence, access to the suspended platform occurs through a helical staircase that revolves around a continuous mural of vines, both living and painted, that describe a selection of thirty interconnected native flowers on the same tree.

LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen

After the platform, a frail wooden ladder allows one to climb to a dark room with four peepholes, a sort of intricate camera obscura, which in turn serves as a passage to an open, overexposed roof, and with a hearth that, at the appropriate distance, could turn the entire tower into an antiquated chimney.


LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen
LAMA Pavilion
© © Pezo von Ellrichshausen


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Pezo von Ellrichshausen
M +56 9 92776645
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Santa Lucia Alto S/N, Casilla 6 3920000, Yungay, Chile