Casa Ortega
Casa Ortega is the house where Barragán first worked out the enclosed sequence of rooms and garden he later refined in his own house next door.
Facts
Casa Ortega is the first version of Barragán's enclosed house and garden, built before his own house next door.
Rooms unfold gradually, walls control what can be seen, and the garden becomes another interior.
Casa Ortega introduces the ideas Barragán refined in all his later houses: privacy, delayed views, changes of scale and movement between shadow and open air.