STATUS
IDEA
CLIENT
Patronato Tamayo
TYPOLOGY
Culture
SIZE M2/FT2
2,300 / 24,757
SHARE
Set upon a steep hillside in Atizapan on the outskirts of Mexico’s largest metropolis, the New Tamayo Museum serves as a nucleus of education and culture, locally, regionally, and internationally.
Named after the Oaxacan born artist Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) and with the symbolic shape of the cross, the museum’s shape derives from the client’s preliminary studies that defined the optimal functionality. BIG’s proposal further enhances it by taking advantage of the best views from above, making the best of the steep terrain and shading the more social program below and creating exterior and interior spaces that overlap for optimal climatic performance.
The main concept of Museo Tamayo Ex-Tension Atizapan is an “Opened Box” that unfolds, opens and invites the visitors inside.
White Cube
White Cross
TRES PERSONAJES, RUFINO TAMAYO 1970
BUILDING FACADE
BRICK PATTERN
DETAIL
Bjarke Ingels Andreas Klok Pedersen Andreas Klok Pedersen Pauline Lavie-Luong Maxime Enrico Pal Arnulf Trodahl
COLLABORATORS
Romo y Asociados
Entorno Taller de Prisaje
Ernesto Moncada
Glessner Group - Germán Glessner
