Taller Mauricio Rocha’s fearless, heartfelt, and unique” extension of Juan O’Gorman and Diego Rivera’s Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico Metropolis has gained the Mies Crown Corridor Americas Prize.
The biennial prize, which is awarded by the Illinois Institute of Expertise Faculty of Structure, was given to the Anahuacalli Museum for the delicate addition to a historic constructing and its landscaping.
“The best way the museum extension mingles with the panorama speaks volumes about the place structure is headed, and the best way it honors the previous is fearless, heartfelt, and unique,” mentioned juror Julie Eizenberg, principal at KoningEizenberg Structure.
The extension includes three new buildings for the complicated in Pedregal, an space in southern Mexico Metropolis well-known for its volcanic stone, which was utilised within the building of the unique museum.
Modernist architect Juan O’Gorman and famend artist Diego Rivera designed the museum in 1964, as a house for Rivera’s intensive assortment of Mesoamerican artwork and cultural objects.
Choose renovations have been additionally made to the present buildings.
The extension aimed to be mild on the panorama, working with the central sq. of the unique plan that orients a sequence of pavilions, galleries and amenities.
The brand new, lengthy buildings are characterised by their louvred facades, materials consistency – achieved via the usage of concrete, machine-cut stone and darkish wooden – and treads that droop the additions above the fragile atmosphere.
“Mauricio Rocha proposes a typology of impartial and permeable volumes, giving continuity to the ground of the present plaza and, in flip, the tough and irregular topography of the pure lava circulation,” mentioned jury chair Sandra Barclay, co-founder of Lima-based studio Barclay & Crousse.
Rocha’s studio, whose work features a courthouse in Pátzcuaro Mexico, will obtain a $50,000 (USD) stipend for the prize.
The opposite finalists shortlisted for the prize included a lot of tasks from North and South America.
Amongst these was Colectivo C733’s Guadalupe Market, additionally in Mexico, in addition to Johnston Marklee’s The Menil Drawing Institute in Texas. One venture from Canada, Patkau Structure’s Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, was chosen.
From South America, José Cubilla’s Valois Housing Constructing in Paraguay and Park within the Prado neighborhood by Medllín’s Secretary of Infrastructure have been within the operating. Extra data on the finalists could be discovered right here.
The pictures is by Rafael Gamo.
