Tulum
Below is 5NOVE/Alessandro Console's winning entry in Arquine's international competition for a Site Museum in Tulum, Mexico. Many thanks to Alessandro for providing the text and images.
Making Radura
The project relates itself with two different contexts: the archaeological site of Tulum and the forest.
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Our strategy of intervention tends to reassume the tension of this twofold relation in a single design gesture. In this spirit, the museum assumes a hypogenous character establishing with its roof a platform that defines a glade in the surrounding space of the woodland.
The museum develops itself below the ground level, under the glade. It is a monolithic element, enveloped by stone panels, on which is elaborated operations of addition and subtraction in order to enlighten the space of the museum.
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The project defines then two parallels spaces: the underground rooms that are related to the imagery of the ancient Mexican architecture, and an upper ground virtual room that is formed by the sky and the trees. The museum is reached through a non-linear path that connects the level of the street with the level of the building. It is an experential path that does not reveal immediately the museum, but instead it exposes it progressively.
The museum is formed by a series of autonomous rooms that are set together in a way to create a series of different paths inside the expositive spaces. The rooms are alternated with open spaces that allow lateral illumination. Vertical illumination is assured by the series of lithic elements on the roof that captivates and inserts the light. The walls are characterized with a superficial treatment that is inspired from the antic decoration of the Maya civilization, creating a texture that filters and decompose the external light.
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Project Team: Alessandro Console, Giuditta Benedetti, Alessio Cancellieri
5NOVE is: Alessandro Console, Gina Oliva, Andrea Canale, Alessio Cancellieri and Giuditta Benedetti.
Making Radura
The project relates itself with two different contexts: the archaeological site of Tulum and the forest.
Click image for larger view
Our strategy of intervention tends to reassume the tension of this twofold relation in a single design gesture. In this spirit, the museum assumes a hypogenous character establishing with its roof a platform that defines a glade in the surrounding space of the woodland.
The museum develops itself below the ground level, under the glade. It is a monolithic element, enveloped by stone panels, on which is elaborated operations of addition and subtraction in order to enlighten the space of the museum.
Click image for larger view
The project defines then two parallels spaces: the underground rooms that are related to the imagery of the ancient Mexican architecture, and an upper ground virtual room that is formed by the sky and the trees. The museum is reached through a non-linear path that connects the level of the street with the level of the building. It is an experential path that does not reveal immediately the museum, but instead it exposes it progressively.
The museum is formed by a series of autonomous rooms that are set together in a way to create a series of different paths inside the expositive spaces. The rooms are alternated with open spaces that allow lateral illumination. Vertical illumination is assured by the series of lithic elements on the roof that captivates and inserts the light. The walls are characterized with a superficial treatment that is inspired from the antic decoration of the Maya civilization, creating a texture that filters and decompose the external light.
Click image for larger view
Project Team: Alessandro Console, Giuditta Benedetti, Alessio Cancellieri
5NOVE is: Alessandro Console, Gina Oliva, Andrea Canale, Alessio Cancellieri and Giuditta Benedetti.
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