Ribbon House V, Casa Lazo V

The Ribbon House V uses the livable ribbon and the surface folds (a'la infinite folds) and uses both systems to crate a house.

The design uses several "found" spaces to create open spaces, balconies and terraces that integrate the interior and the exterior in a very organic way.

Both systems are created with a 3x3 grid and a 3x3x3 grid for the spacial ribbon. The first two, are planes and are represented by wood veneered surfaces. The next two are caste in concrete 3x3 structures.

The "found" spaces turned out to be quite revealing and possessed a very sublime quality in relations to the rest of the composition.

Plan View

The in-between space generated between the systems is an exterior-interior space that is also a mezzanine for the terraces below.

Ribbon House IV, Casa Lazo IV

The Ribbon House IV approaches the planar flow in a different way. Now the ribbon itself is habitable, fluid and inconclusive. Still using folds for its continuity, this posed a challenge.

The first one was to maintain the space habitable. For that the ribbon had to be able to be walked on and through.

Maintaining a start and an end the Ribbon House IV showed a couple of things:

1. The ribbon can be functional

2. The ribbon's folds, even the vertical, could become programmatic. 

Ribbon House III, Casa Lazo III

In this exercise, the ribbon becomes the structure and private spaces "hang" from this structure. And interesting afterthought is that there are exterior-interior spaces created inside that could also be made private.

A very interesting sequence form the outside was developed.

“Architects are mediators, architecture appears before us with the parameters we force upon the program.”

Ribbon House II, Casa Lazo II

This house was the second approach to the ribbon exercise. The ribbon here only served decorative purposes creating an ornamental volume that embraced the rectangular volume. The massive rectangle cantilevers over the core structure and balances and a anchors to the ribbon structure.