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Thursday, April 5, 2012

The luck of Gauchos....







Martin "Facha" Orozco is architect, designer, Argentines, but above all polo players and thus horse enthusiast. As a polo player, Orozco has travelled more than 30 countries with his horses, most of all, however, he appreciates the life in the rural Argentina. The population of Lozano consisted formerly of just 15 souls (more than 300 horses are available on the Estancia). Today, it roars in only a few moments on a dirt road through the village, the descendent of last head lives in its still set station Cacho. Cacho still waiting that the trains go back and hoarding the old editions of a railway magazine. Orozco wanted to intervene in the outer appearance, and decided to create space in the traditional way. Country houses, it was usual to build similar client storage shed for the saddles and the gap of the Gauchos on the outer walls. Orozco focused mind, installed but instead about a bathroom, where he used the corrugated iron common at these additions outside. The open living room fireplace was particularly important to him "who should be large enough, so that I can sleep in a cold winter's night, also: I am 1.84 meters tall, my fireplace is 1.85 meters wide". The deeper it penetrates into the supposedly simple design of Puesto, the more likely is Orozco reasons behind every decision. The red and pink shades of the House come about so that the lime was mixed with ox blood to seal the walls against water. "This House tells a lot about my life." "About the hundreds of photos and paintings on the walls: show horses, friends, horses, relatives, horses, dogs - and just a few horses."