MUSEO KORDILYERA

As a solution, our proposal for the project was to maintain the open spaces, enhance the landscape behind the existing gallery, converting it into an entrance pavilion, office and teaching space, providing the exhibition areas and additional spaces for the museum below ground underneath the plaza, bringing down with it the circulation areas, thus replacing the covered walkways. By designing it this way, we are able to achieve a seamless integration into the existing campus and convert it and the surrounding buildings into spaces that supports multiple spatial typologies including an art gallery, museum, theater, teaching spaces, offices, cafe, shop and gathering areas for the students.

This project aims to integrate the contents of the museum into our contemporary setting, designing a space that is more programmatic than aesthetic. The protagonist of the project then is not the building itself, rather the narrative that creates the end product and the spaces that hold the essence of the culture, which is emphasized on the events, people, and their connection and relationship with nature.