EXTENSION FOR LIMA ART MUSEUM COMPETITION
LIMA, 2016

The extension for "Lima Art Museum" is a project that seeks to acknowledge and respect the context where it is inserted. On the city scale, the project understand the dryness of Lima and the importance of the few existing green spaces in the metropolis, it also acknowledges the Parque de la Exposición as part of a bigger organism of green urban spaces, thus rethinking the project as a stone that can help to motorize future projects. The design proposed for the park incorporates the existing pedestrian routes and the importance not only of the MALI but also of the pavilions within the park. In addition, it includes landscape strategies that solve noise issues and degrees of privacy.

Under a great public space platform, most of the new MALI expansion for contemporary art is located, liberating the west facade of the historic building completely. Thedesign consists in two moves: the box/pavilion that emerges from the platform and replicates the pavilions within the park, and the void/patio that replicates the courtyard of the MALI. Both pieces articulate the diferent programs.

At the level of design, the structural clarity seeks to emphasize the central nave that links the two light stones and allows multiple organizational options and subdivisions. Finally, the materiality evokes Peruvian memory where the hard soil gives a stereotomic character to the proposal, intensifying the sensorial experience as you walk through.

Team: Ignacio Cardona - Claudia Tomateo - Izgi Uygur - Rodrigo Guerra - Yuting Zhang